Muharrem Ince, the chairperson of the Homeland Social gathering (MP) and presidential candidate for the upcoming elections, referred to as on the opposition to cease assaults by journalists and social media trolls funded by the Republican Folks’s Social gathering (CHP).
“Trolls and alleged journalists fed by the CHP municipalities and social gathering headquarters have entered a race with FETÖ (Gülenist Terror Group) and PKK accounts to smear us. So I referred to as on the Nation Alliance one final time. Both you cease these vile slanderers, or I’ll go away every thing beside and convey you down a peg,” Ince stated.
Ince began his political profession within the CHP and was elected because the social gathering’s lawmaker from the Yalova constituency through the 2002 elections. He twice challenged the management of Kılıçdaroğlu, in 2014 and 2018, however did not garner sufficient votes to defeat him within the CHP’s intra-party polls. But, Kılıçdaroğlu, whose social gathering repeatedly misplaced all elections towards the ruling Justice and Improvement Social gathering (AK Social gathering) in 20 years, nominated him as a contender towards President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan within the 2018 presidential elections. Erdoğan secured a landslide victory within the polls, whereas Ince is credited with boosting the CHP’s vote for the primary time in many years in such an election to over 30%. After the post-election fallout with the CHP, Ince established his social gathering in 2021.
The opposition is accusing him of splitting the votes towards Erdoğan by turning into a presidential candidate and never supporting Kılıçdaroğlu.