In politics there is such a thing as “Plan B”. It is usually the name of grand strategies, deep calculations, “the envelope that will be opened one day”. But our Plan B is a bit different... It is more like a credit list to be given to the neighborhood grocery store: open-ended, unpredictable when it will be closed.
In recent days, there has been a “Plan B” rumor going around. Recently, Journalist Engin Balım shared a news, Are the immovable properties of CHP going to the October Party? Hop, agenda, previously journalist and former CHP deputy Barış Yarkadaş said “They established a party in Kadıköy” and last month Journalist Atakan Sönmez received an SMS from somewhere saying “One Party”. He reported it, so what's missing? Let's hang a banner saying “we're opening soon” and we'll be complete.
Then Gökhan Günaydın appeared on the Timur Soykan program and dropped the bomb: “There is a plan B.”
The only question on people's minds is: What is this plan?
- Some call it a grand chess move.
- For some, it's a “stand by in case of an absolute nullity” bench...
- For some, it is classic Turkish politics: “Let's pretend to do something.”
But what does history tell us? The fate of those who break away from the CHP and form new parties is usually the same. Those who remember remember: Muharrem İnce tried one way, Emine Ülker Tarhan another... The result? A “footnote” in political history books and a “lost line” on the electoral ballot.
Already in Turkey, the ballot paper is like a seamless shroud, like a graveyard of political parties that stretches on and on. You open it, page after page of party names. Some of them are old before they were born, some were shut down before they were founded. Voters are like “solving puzzles” at the ballot box:
“Who was this? When was this established?”
The picture does not look much different for the new parties to be established. They start with big claims, then the election day comes... The vote rate is as much as a piece of chewing gum from the grocery store.
So this “plan B” is not like the fake Matrix scenario polls on social media.
It's more like this:
“If plan A doesn't work, plan B won't work either, but let's leave it aside.”
What is the truth? Time will tell, or perhaps it is the classic “agenda distraction” trick of politics.
But one thing is certain:
At this rate, we will be printing encyclopedias, not ballot papers.
And the voters will say this at the ballot box:
“Am I here to vote, or am I here for a party fair?”
If the October Party is established, there are those who say that it will come like a storm in the fall, it will not be a storm, it will be like a leaf blown in a storm.