Based on the parties candidate deputy lists announced the day before, of the 600 candidates whose professions are listed publicly, at least one third are bosses.
Last month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called snap elections for June 24, bringing the polls forward by a year-and-a-half.
The Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) list includes 247 candidates from the private sector including Diyarbakır’s Commodity Exchange Market’s former president.
The Republican People’s Party (CHP), the Felicity Party (SP) and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) did not list the professions of their candidates. The Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) list includes 201 candidates from the private sector. While 25 of these are merchants, the list also has 18 industrialists. The ‘Good’ Party (İyi Party) has 199 bosses in their list.
In total contrast to the bourgeois parties’ candidates, "This Order Must Change Platform" established by the initiative of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) includes all workers as their candidates who are all determined to fight the order of capitalists bosses. TKP’s initial call for the Platform underlined that Erdoğan’s AKP party was established as a common project of big capitalists and imperialist centres and unleashed an unprecedented assault on the working people in the modern history of Turkey.
