{"id":277317,"date":"2023-11-04T10:48:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T07:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=277317"},"modified":"2024-11-07T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T22:04:17","slug":"chp-withdraws-one-candidate-before-congress-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/chp-withdraws-one-candidate-before-congress-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"A candidate withdraws before the CHP congress starts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHP's 38th Ordinary Congress started today in Ankara with the slogan \u201cDemocracy and Unity Congress in the Second Century\u201d. In the congress, which will be chaired by Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, 1,367 congress delegates from 81 provinces will elect the new chairman and the new party administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0130lhan Cihaner withdraws from candidacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minutes before the start of the congress, \u0130lhan Cihaner, one of the CHP's presidential candidates, withdrew his candidacy, saying \u201cI will not be a part of this antidemocratic race.\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">To the public and the delegates of the 38th Congress,<br \/>\nDear members of the CHP<\/p>\n<p>Our 38th Congress, where our party's past accounting should have been made, the path to the future and power should have been discussed, and the political direction should have been determined, unfortunately, those who brought the party to this day were divided into two, and the progressive...<\/p>\n<p>- \u0130lhan Cihaner (@ilhancihaner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ilhancihaner\/status\/1720707152141017158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cihaner's statement on social media is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>To the public and the delegates of the 38th Congress,<br \/>\nDear members of the CHP<\/p>\n<p>Our 38th Congress, which was supposed to make an accounting of our party's past, discuss the path to the future and power, and determine the political direction, was unfortunately condemned to a stalemate in which those who brought the party to this day were divided into two and a progressive transformation and reconstruction was stifled.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of discussing political approaches and identifying competent cadres, an ugly environment was created where municipal facilities were competed.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, by creating a perception of power through intense media manipulation, the congress process was transformed into a \u201cpolitics-free\u201d psychological war in which only two people competed. The democratic representation of other candidates was prevented by turning the signature declarations resembling the participation of the \u201cHomeland Front\u201d into pressure. So much so that by spreading rumors that \u201csignature support would be given to other candidates\u201d, the support of our delegates who supported us was made questionable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WE REFUSE TO BE PART OF THIS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, POLITICIZED AND PERSONALIZED RACE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We express our respect and gratitude to all our comrades who have signed our petition and given us their shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>The road is long and arduous.<br \/>\nWe keep our hope alive that our Assembly Delegates, most of whom come from great struggles, will choose the right thing despite all these anti-democratic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Long Live the Republican People's Party, Long Live the Republic! We for the Future<\/p>\n<p>\u0130lhan Cihaner<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHP 38. Ola\u011fan Kurultay\u0131 \u201c\u0130kinci Y\u00fczy\u0131lda Demokrasi ve Birlik Kurultay\u0131\u201d slogan\u0131yla bug\u00fcn Ankara\u2019da ba\u015flad\u0131. Divan Ba\u015fkanl\u0131\u011f\u0131n\u0131 \u0130stanbul B\u00fcy\u00fck\u015fehir Belediye Ba\u015fkan\u0131 Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu\u2019nun yapaca\u011f\u0131 kurultayda, 81 ilden gelen bin 367 kurultay delegesi yeni genel ba\u015fkan\u0131 ve yeni parti y\u00f6netimini se\u00e7ecek. \u0130lhan Cihaner adayl\u0131ktan \u00e7ekildi CHP&#8217;nin genel ba\u015fkan adaylar\u0131ndan \u0130lhan Cihaner, kurultay\u0131n ba\u015flamas\u0131na dakikalar kala &#8220;Bu antidemokratik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gundem"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278763,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277317\/revisions\/278763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}