Özel rallies CHP lawmakers behind convention push in disputed session
Alperen Karaköse - ANKARA
Ousted main opposition leader Özgür Özel used a polemical meeting in parliament on June 2 to accuse the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) reinstated leadership of collaborating with the government, renewing his calls for a new convention to resolve the dispute.
The meeting marked the first gathering of CHP lawmakers in parliament since an “absolute nullity” ruling on May 21 annulled the party’s 38th ordinary convention in 2023 and temporarily restored former leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
“Before us stands an alliance between those who cannot accept the Nov. 5 [2023] convention and those who cannot accept the March 31 [2024] local elections,” Özel said, describing it as “the alliance of the absolute sultan and absolute nullity.”
