CHP files application with Constitutional Court over Climate Law

The Republican People's Party (CHP) has applied to the Constitutional Court seeking the annulment of the Climate Law.

CHP Deputy Group Chair Gökhan Günaydın filed an application with the Constitutional Court concerning laws numbered 7548, 7549, 7551 (the law granting the President authority to appoint rectors and removing municipalities' authority to open student dormitories), 7550 (the 10th Judicial Package), 7552 (the Climate Law), as well as Presidential Decree No. 186.

"WE ARE HERE FOR THE ANNULMENT OF ALL ARTICLES"

Günaydın made a statement before the Constitutional Court after submitting the petition requesting the suspension of enforcement and annulment of certain provisions in the said laws. Günaydın said: "We are faced with a People's Alliance majority that has rejected all 774 legislative proposals submitted by the Republican People's Party and has not placed a single one of our 1,250 research motions on the agenda. Today we brought three separate packages related to Decree Law No. 774. In addition, the 10th Judicial Package was submitted to the Constitutional Court as the fourth measure. We are here for the annulment of all articles of the Climate Law, and we have submitted to the court our petitions — prepared to seek, first and foremost, a stay of execution and, in any event, annulment — for a total of five laws and one Presidential Decree, including the annulment of a Presidential Decree."

"WE CONTINUE TO STAND ON THE SIDE OF THE LAW"

Günaydın noted that the Constitutional Court had previously annulled the President's authority to appoint rectors, adding: "However, they passed that authority through parliament once again through another regulation. In other words, a kind of standoff between the People's Alliance and the Constitutional Court is ongoing. As the opposition, we continue to stand on the side of the law here. Every time the Constitutional Court says 'the President cannot appoint rectors unilaterally,' the President continues to appoint rectors unilaterally, and we are before the Constitutional Court once again seeking its annulment. Another issue is that municipalities are apparently not allowed to open dormitories. They unfortunately passed this as a legislative amendment through parliament and published it in the Official Gazette. We have naturally brought the annulment of this here today as well."