Erdogan has his rival stopped: Turkish democracy vacillates | EUROtoday

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The arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, on March 19, marked a brand new stage within the authoritarian affirmation of the Erdoganian regime. At the pinnacle of the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul since 2019, and re -elected comfortably on the finish of the native elections of March 31, 2024, he was anticipated to face Recep Tayyip Erdogan throughout the 2028 presidential election in Turkey.

With his authority inside the primary opposition party-the CHP (Republican Party of the People: Kemalist and Social-Democratic left-wing heart)-, the mayor of Istanbul was anticipated to be a critical rival to the outgoing president, all of the extra in a local weather combining financial dissatisfaction, political dissatisfaction, and distance from the youthful generations with the values ​​carried out by the values ​​at present …


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