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Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu reiterated his readiness to run in the next presidential elections as the candidate of the Nation's Alliance if the opposition agrees on his name.

"If there is an agreement on my name, I have no right to object," Kılıçdaroğlu said in an interview with FOX TV on Feb. 3.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener said on Feb. 1 that the six-party Nation Alliance's government program is the concrete plan of what they will do after May 14 elections drafted over discussions of the opposition leaders in "common sense."

The six-party Nation Alliance's government program is the first of its kind throughout the "history of democracy," in Türkiye, the Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on Jan. 31.

The six-party Nation Alliance's government program is a "treason document" and aims at dragging Türkiye into a system in crisis, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli said on Jan. 31.

The leaders of the six oppositional parties held their 11th meeting on Jan. 26 to start deliberations for choosing a joint presidential candidate to race against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the mid-May polls.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has criticized opposition parties for not being able to declare their presidential candidate even when only a few months have left for the elections.

"The nation is looking for a president who will rule the country, they are worried about six people who will rule the president," Erdoğan said on Jan. 10, addressing a meeting of craftspeople.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener stressed that the presidential candidate of the Nation Alliance should have state experience and would pursue a parliamentary system.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said he was ready to run in the next presidential elections if other opposition parties agree on his name.

"If my name is agreed on, I am ready," he said on Sept. 5 in an interview with Fox TV when asked about his possible presidential candidacy in the next elections.

Leader of main opposition Republican People's Party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu (C), candidate of main opposition Republican People's Party for Ankara mayor Mansur Yavas and Republican People's Party candidate for Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu greet their supporters in Ankara, April 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/STRINGER.

The leaders of the six opposition parties have agreed to run in the next presidential elections with a joint candidate but without spelling out who he or she might be, in their sixth in-person meeting over the weekend.