LOCAL ELECTIONS 2024

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• DEM Party Co-Chair: We will implement a women’s libertarian local government 

  "In the 31 March elections, we will win the municipalities one by one and strengthen democracy at the local level with the approach of a democratic ecological municipalism and women's libertarian local government, said the Co-Chair of the DEM Party.
• DEM Party announces candidates for 96 cities and districts for 31 March elections 

  DEM Party announced its co-mayoral candidates for the 31 March local elections at an event organised in Amed.
• DEM Party presents female co-mayor candidates 

  Speaking at the presentation event of the female co-mayor candidates, DEM Party Women's Assembly Spokesperson Halide Türkoğlu said the co-presidency system also showed the stage reached by the thousands of years of women's struggle.
• DEM candidates to the local elections will be officially presented on Monday 

  DEM Party spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan announced that the party’s candidates for the local elections will be officially presented on Monday, 29 January.
• Bor: We will get rid of the trustee system 

  Rojbin Bor, one of the founders of the Star Women's Association in Van, described the system of municipal trustee administration as systematic destruction and talked about overcoming it.
• Kaya: DEM Party candidates are chosen through primary elections this weekend 

  Over a hundred elected mayors of Kurdish municipalities have been arrested in recent years, yet many people presented themselves as candidates for the DEM party in the local elections. Saturday and Sunday people are chosing their final candidates.
• DEM Party launches preparations for local elections in Amed 

  The DEM party (Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party) is letting the grassroots decide on the candidates for the upcoming local elections in Turkey. The party will hold primary elections on 13-14 January.
• DEM Party to hold primary elections on 13 and 14 January 

  The DEM Party Central Executive Board meeting decided that the primary elections for the candidates to be nominated in the 31 March local elections will be held on 13-14 January.
• DEM Party in Van, Bitlis and Hakkari ready to defend people’s will at 31 March local elections 

  DEM Party in Van, Bitlis and Hakkari ready to defend the people’s will at the 31 March local elections.
• Ballıkaya: We want to regain both the usurped municipalities and the usurped women's gains 

  Several Ballıkaya from the DEM Party Women's Council said that they are determined to implement the free women's line in local elections in accordance with the principles of democratic local governments.
• DEM party announces its strategy and roadmap for local elections to be held on 31 March 2024 

  The DEM party has announced its strategy and roadmap for the local elections to be held on 31 March 2024 in Turkey.
• DEM Party announces 27 districts in the west where the party will field candidates for elections 

  DEM Party Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan announced 27 districts in the west where they will field candidates and stated that the application period for candidate candidacy has been extended until 25 December.
• DEM Party-CHP meeting highlights the need for “further dialogue and negotiation” 

  "We need further dialogue and negotiation" was the message given at the DEM Party-CHP meeting in Ankara on Wednesday.
• CHP Chair Özgür Özel visits DEM Party 

  CHP Chair Özgür Özel visited DEM Party Co-Chairs Tuncer Bakırhan and Tülay Hatimoğulları in Ankara.
• HEDEP acronym changed to DEM Party 

  HEDEP Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan announced that the acronym of the party will be changed to "DEM Party".
• HEDEP Spokesperson: We are preparing to enter the elections with our candidates all over Turkey 

  HEDEP Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan stated that the tendency to field candidates in every part of the country emerged at the MYK meeting of the party and said, "Our strategy is to win, not to have others lose or win."
• HEDEP to announce decisions regarding local election process today 

  HEDEP spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan said that they will announce the decisions taken regarding the election process at the ongoing MYK meeting at a press conference to be held later today.
• HEDEP starts preparations for local elections 

  Local elections will take place in Turkey in March. HEDEP has defined criteria for the selection of its candidates. The candidates should be chosen from the grassroots based on the consensus principle.
• HEDEP starts to receive candidate applications for local elections 

  People's Democracy and Equality Party (HEDEP) has started to receive candidate applications for the local elections to be held on 31 March 2024.
• HEDEP to change party acronym 

  The Green Left Party (YSP), which ran in the Turkish elections in place of the HDP (threatened to be banned), renamed itself HEDEP in October. The acronym was rejected by the Court of Cassation because it is similar to HADEP, banned twenty years ago.