Özel, allies to seek legal path for new CHP convention
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Özgür Özel shake hands during a memorial ceremony for late CHP MP Orhan Sür in parliament, June 25.
Allies of ousted Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel are preparing to challenge the main opposition movement’s internal leadership crisis in court, escalating a dispute over whether an extraordinary convention should be convened to reset the governing bodies.
Özel’s team is preparing to file its first lawsuit this week over the resignation of 27 members of the CHP’s Party Assembly, according to reports. The filing will argue that the mass resignations have effectively dissolved the council by removing its quorum, and it will ask a court to formally recognize that the body can no longer function.
The move is part of a broader effort by Özel’s camp to force an extraordinary convention. Under the party’s bylaws, an emergency vote must be convened quickly to replace Party Assembly members when quorum is lost, and Özel’s allies argue that such a process should also include an election on the party leadership.
