CHP crisis shifts to parliamentary group dispute
The leadership dispute inside the main opposition CHP has moved to parliament, with rival factions clashing over whether Özgür Özel can convene the party’s parliamentary group meeting as group chair.
The dispute follows a court ruling annulling the CHP’s 2023 congress and reinstating former chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, a decision that has left the party divided over authority, procedure and the timing of a new congress.
Kılıçdaroğlu has applied to the parliament speaker’s office, asking for the vote that elected Özel as CHP parliamentary group chair to be declared invalid.
In the application, Kılıçdaroğlu’s side argued that the closed group meeting where Özel was elected had been held without a proper agenda, without a call from the party chairman and without observing the required procedures.
