Political parties

The Constitutional Court has rejected an individual application filed by imprisoned main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Enis Berberoğlu, ruling that the appeal of the lawmaker based on the ground of a violation of his right to individual freedom and his right to being elected is inadmissible. 

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has called on the Turkish government to impose sanctions on two U.S. ministers in retaliation to Washington's sanctions on Turkey's justice and interior ministers over the continued arrest of pastor Andrew Brunson. 

Supporter of Nelson Chamisa from Zimbabwe's opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have gathered in the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe, following a general election.

Zimbabwe police have been deployed to the center of the capital ahead of the election results being announced.

How can we make our politicians understand that certain jobs in the state apparatus should be protected against political interference and partisan games?

Six MPs from the non-Serb ethnic minority parliamentary group 6+ have asked Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to dismiss deputy foreign minister, Gjergj Dedaj, after he referred to Turkey and Serbia as "cruel rulers" who are seeking to regain their influence in Kosovo, one of then told BIRN on Tuesday.

The "No convicts in public offices" campaign has gathered, until now, 450,000 signatures and will continue in the next two weeks with a caravan that will cross 12 counties in order to reach the target of 500,000 signatures, said the Save Romania Union (USR) Chairman, deputy Dan Barna.

Main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is holding a press conference on Tuesday morning to comment on the deadly wildfires that ripped through the east coast of Attica a week ago, New Democracy said in a press release.

The event will be held at the party's headquarters at noon.

Muharrem İnce, the main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) presidential candidate in the June elections, has once again defied party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to bring the party to an extraordinary convention, in what is seen as a major leadership challenge to the CHP's longtime chair.

İYİ (Good) Party founder and leader Meral Akşener signaled she would continue to be the party's leader after announcing she would not be a candidate for the leadership position in the upcoming extraordinary congress amid efforts to persuade her from her supporters.

The two-week signature-collection period for Republican People's Party (CHP) delegates to convey an extraordinary congress with the agenda for leadership change ends today, as the in-house discussion grows over the number of signatures and the timing of the initiation of dissidents.