Özge Aydemir Güney, This Social Order Must Change Platform parliamentary candidate for June 24 elections, gave an interview to soL news portal on June 6, talking about the story of her candidacy. She is a minimum wage worker at OSTİM organised industrial zone in Ankara province. Güney says that she struggles for the rights of the working class as a mother of a 13 years old daughter and expecting the second one.
During the interview, Güney said that there had never been a single candidate for the general elections before from the OSTİM organised industrial zone where there are more than 150 thousand workers. She added that politics have always been considered as the domain of their bosses at OSTİM while relating an interesting episode about her candidacy.
Güney told that while her boss at OSTİM had been nominated as a candidate from a bourgeois party and he was not elected by the administrators of that party, she runs for the elections as a candidate. Güney says that her colleagues also supported her instead of their boss, adding "When something happens at the factory, the workers ask my opinions about that rather than our boss' opinion."
Reminding that a considerable amount of money is required to run as an independent candidate, Güney said that the only person who asked her about the source of that money for her candidacy was her boss. She said, "The workers did not ask such a question because they know that the required money was raised collectively."
The independent candidates of This Social Order Must Change Platform will participate in the parliamentary voting in 17 electoral districts, the country’s most populated and industrial provinces such as İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Bursa, Adana, Antalya, Konya, Kocaeli and Diyarbakır. The platform was established following the call of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) after Turkey’s electoral council (YSK) unlawfully prevented the party from participating the elections on June 24.
