Grand National Assembly of Turkey

The Labor and Freedom Alliance, led by the Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) announced that they will not appoint their own candidate for the presidential elections with signals that their support will go to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the joint candidate of the six-party Nation Alliance.

Good (İYİ) Party Chairwoman Meral Akşener has reiterated that they will immediately sign the Istanbul Convention that stipulates solid measures opposing the violence against women.

The chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and presidential candidate of the Nation Alliance, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, visited Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar on March 20 in their group hall at the parliament.

With nearly two months to go to the polls, the political parties have started to receive applications for those who want to run for the 600-seat parliament.

The Supreme Election Board (YSK) has determined a total of 36 political parties as eligible to run in Türkiye's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.

After President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on March 10, signed a presidential decree declaring the election date as May 14, YSK convened to determine political parties that could run in the elections.

İYİ (Good) Party Chair Meral Akşener has said her party does not object to a dialogue between the Republican People's Party (CHP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) but that any negotiation for forming a government such as a ministry distribution is out of the question.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli accused the six opposition parties on March 7 of being "unprincipled," suggesting that even in the nomination process of their presidential candidate, the members of the alliance acted with a lack of principles.

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.

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.

A parliamentary commission has approved a constitutional amendment package tabled by the ruling alliance that stipulates lifting restrictions against women wearing headscarf in public and private spaces, and strengthening the family structure.