Political parties

Municipal councilors from the commission for education and culture in Sofia voted "in favor" of dismantling and moving the monument to the Soviet Army.

Turkish main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader and Presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu (2-L) greets his supporters with his wife Selvi (R), Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu (2-R) and Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavas (L) after the six opposition parties alliance chose and announced him as presidential candidate for the upcoming elections, in Ankara, Turkey 06 March 2023.

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.

A key opposition party rejoined Turkey's six-party alliance on Monday after a compromise was found over the nomination of a joint candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections scheduled for May.

The difference between the leading parties GERB-SDS and "We Continue the Change" (WCC) at the beginning of the election campaign is very small. This is shown by a survey on the electoral attitudes of "Market Links" and bTV

A six-party alliance on Monday nominated main opposition party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu as its common candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections in May, ending months of uncertainty and bickering that had frustrated their supporters.

According to those results, the Reform Party won 31.5 percent, while the far-right party, the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), won second place with 16.1 percent of the vote.

Left to right, Mansur Yavas, Ekrem Imamoglu, Meral Aksener and Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Photo/Illustration: BIRN

However, in a sign of continued divisions, it has been revealed that Meral Aksener, leader of the Good Party, the second biggest in the alliance, opposed the candidacy of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party, CHP.

Turkey's six-party opposition alliance said it will announce on Monday its joint candidate to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan in the presidential election, little more than two months before the vote is set to be held.

NIS - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday in Nis she agreed with President Aleksandar Vucic's statement about the relationship within the ruling coalition between the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), and noted that she had nothing to add to what Vucic had said.