On a TV program, pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) spokesman Ayhan Bilgen declared the position his party will take in case the presidential elections will go for second round. HDP will support either parliamentary main opposition CHP's candidate Muharrem İnce or İyi Party’s fascist leader Meral Akşener, depending on who will proceed to the run-off and face Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Bilgen was especially asked that if this would also be the HDP’s move if fascist Akşener proceeds to the second round. He answered that they are clear about this issue. "Whoever faces Erdoğan," he said, "we should be against this one-man regime".
Meral Akşener is a former interior minister who founded the far-right İyi ("Good") Party last year after being sacked from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which has entered an election alliance with Erdoğan's AKP party.
Turkey will hold its early presidential and general elections on June 24.
Polls suggest Erdoğan's alliance could narrowly lose its parliamentary majority, while the presidential vote may also go to a second round run-off.
There are six presidential candidates: Meral Akşener (İyi "Good" Party), Selahattin Demirtas (Peoples' Democratic Party - HDP), Erdoğan (Justice and Development Party - AKP), Muharrem İnce (Republican People's Party - CHP), Temel Karamollaoğlu (Saadet "Felicity" Party) and Dogu Perinçek (Vatan "Patriotic" Party).
Polls suggest that İnce or Akşener can force a second round on July 8.
The second ballots will be held between the two most voted candidates, if the first election does not come up with a candidate securing an overall majority (at least 50%+1).
Selahattin Demirtaş, the presidential candidate of HDP, mentioned in an interview that HDP did not consider boycotting the second round elections in case he would not be one of the candidates.
Demirtaş declared that he thought the Nation Alliance (made by CHP, Good Party, Islamist Felicity Party and Democrat Party) should be expanded and turn into a democracy alliance. In fact, the co-chair of HDP, Sezai Temelli, on June 13, called on the 'opposition' parties to form a protocol "against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" in presidential elections, as he called for "uniting for democracy."
