In the presidential system, 583,000 merchants went bankrupt.

Türkiye While experiencing the biggest economic crisis in its history in the last five years, small businesses also took their share of this crisis. In the first three months of 2023, the number of merchants who went bankrupt due to leaving the profession and registration reached at least 35,774. In the five years since the presidential system, 583,314 merchants have gone bankrupt. CHP Vice President Veli Ağbaba made a written press release about the bankruptcy of the merchants.

POPULATION OF 44 PROVINCES

Reporting that the bankruptcy of 35,774 merchants in the first three months of this year is the highest three-month bankruptcy since 2019, Ağbaba said: “The number of merchants who left the profession in the first three months of the year was 7 thousand 67, while the number of merchants that left the registry was 28 thousand, there were 707”, he said.

Veli Ağbaba, “AKP Chairman and President Tayyip Erdoğan, said before the 2018 elections: ‘Give this brother the authority, then you will see how to deal with this interest, this and that.’ It was said that with the presidential system we would be between the 3 largest economies in the world.In the last 5 years of the presidential system, which cannot be finished with praise, 583 thousand 314 merchants have gone bankrupt and lost their bread.The total number of bankruptcies exceeded the population of 44 provinces.

Speaking about the arrangements that will be made for the merchants in case they win the elections, Ağbaba said: “The first thing after the elections on May 14 will be the interest on the merchants’ debts with the banks and the guarantee cooperatives of credit. Additionally, we will reinstate the rate of withholding tax on workplace rental payments.”

Veli Agbaba

‘We will end premium inequality’

Referring to the 9,000-day premium in its statement, CHP Veli Ağbaba said: “For our merchants to retire, they will recognize the right to borrow backwards, which last applied between 2000 and 2008, taking into account the accession periods. . to commercial registries and chambers of commerce, and 9,000 days of inequality in premiums, we are going to put an end to that, ”he said.