CHP needs renewal, not change

cogeneration President Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu made important remarks to SÖZCÜ about the parliamentary and presidential election process, and the discussions about the ‘change’ that started in his party and the upcoming local elections. “CHP needs renewal, not change. There is a line and an objective that Gazi Mustafa Kemal raised. What would you change about it? The highlights of Kılıçdaroğlu’s statements are as follows:

■ CHP needs renewal, not change. In other words, our party’s ideology is clear. We are the social democratic party. There is a line and an objective that Gazi Mustafa Kemal raised. What are you going to change about it? This goal remains unchanged. We are a social democratic party, we have 6 arrows.

WHAT WILL WE CHANGE?

■ ‘Statism’, which is one of the 6 arrows, was determined as the direct establishment of state factories as state intervention in the economy. But today it has been renewed and we call it the ‘welfare state’. The main task of the state is to provide the welfare state. It is the welfare of society. This is what the state is a social state. As you know, our nationalism is a nationalism based on or directed at the interests of Turkey. Not on the basis of racism. Our 6 arrows are true, which of them will you change?

■ Do we need renovation? What is renewal? For example, it is necessary to change the statutes of the party. We are already working on this. What is the expectation of the organizations and what is not, we receive them. We will really make and implement good changes in your organization that you will be very happy with.

WE WILL GET GOOD RESULTS

■ I think we will achieve a very good performance in the local elections. We took a lot of work up to a point. Our nominations will also be good. We will get very good results. We will have the following method for nominating candidates: A candidate will not be determined by a single observation. Surveys will be conducted, field research will be conducted. Our inspectors will go and look at the area. Special studies will be carried out on “with whom we will win, with whom we will not win.” Candidates will be determined.

■ Cooperation with other political parties is curious. Collaboration in local governments is largely done by the people themselves. If a mayor likes his candidate, he looks at his personality instead of his party’s identity, and if he has the personality to serve his own people, he can easily go to vote. Of course, it is not correct to comment on how to cooperate with other parties at this stage. But in the future, cooperation may or may not come to the fore. If there is cooperation, this is not everywhere in Türkiye. It can be in certain areas.

I DON’T WANT TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION…CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu spoke with SÖZCÜ Media Group Ankara representative and our writer Saygı Öztürk. Kılıçdaroğlu replied, “I don’t want to answer that”, to the question “How far will you take the policy?”

If there is prejudice, criticism ceases to be critical.

Maturity Kılıçdaroğlu commented on the criticism leveled at both him and his party after the election: “When you approach it with prejudice, criticism stops being criticism.” “I respect any criticism. But the criticism is also full of heart, it must be a justified criticism in its own way”, Kılıçdaroğlu’s assessments are as follows:

■ I’m not saying, “We don’t have any flaws or flaws.” I didn’t say anything about that. We can be wrong or wrong. But the critique must be within the framework that points you in the right direction. So we respect both criticism and criticism. If criticism becomes an insult, or rather an insulting article or speech, it is no longer critical. It is prejudice. However, the duty of a journalist is to get rid of his prejudices and evaluate the politician within the framework of a healthy and consistent criticism. In other words, we don’t expect anything that is necessarily praise. A politician needs healthy criticism more than praise. We try to correct where our shortcomings, errors and mistakes are.

THIS INJUSTICE IS MAKING ME SAD

■ It is okay to criticize what has been done, but it is not right to accept most of it as criticism, they are not criticism, but articles or statements written with prejudice. Criticism is something different. Many of the criticisms are often unfair. Our party headquarters and our party organizations know this very well. They can tell us what we lack. I would really like to see you express our shortcomings and say, ‘You didn’t do this here, you have a shortcoming here, why didn’t you do this?’ I really feel sad when I read and hear unfair criticism.

Fraud was not in question, but the matter was CHP

kilicdarogluEvaluating the election results, “We wanted to win, to succeed, to bring democracy to Turkey. We wanted to avoid the high bills imposed on the poor due to the bad economic policy followed in Turkey. But our people preferred this way, ”he said. Kılıçdaroğlu said: “We need to discuss the moral legitimacy of this election,” and continued:

■ Votes were asked for fraud and fraud was committed. Erdogan himself admitted it. The legitimacy of an administration that came to power through fraud is questioned in every country in the world. This was not even questioned. The whole problem came and was concentrated in the CHP. But both the moral and political legitimacy of that camp must be questioned.

■ The ministers went under them and used all the means of the state. We are not only fighting Erdogan, we are also fighting Erdogan’s state bureaucracy. So we fight. If they say “Kılıçdaroğlu didn’t work”, they should explain it to me. “You didn’t work there, you didn’t go there when you were supposed to, you just sat there and didn’t do anything. If they say: “That is why such an image has arisen”, I will ultimately refer those who say this to the conscience of the citizens.

WE HAVE THE CASES

■ In the elections held so far, these elections have been the ones in which we have held out the most at the polls. In other words, if you break an MP’s nose to ensure safety at the polls or to watch or be there (27th-term MP Ali Şeker was attacked in Şanlıurfa), it is a great injustice to say that he did not go to the polls . So it’s gone.

■ Former deputies, provincial deputies, that is, they all left. Has it been done 100%? We obtain it from the minutes of the Supreme Board of Elections. We will ask why to those who could not attend. But there must have been a witness in that urn. In other words, he was a witness, even though he was not an official. Because the volunteers went and waited at the polls.

Why are 25 million voters ignored?

Vote One of the criticisms leveled at the CHP afterwards was the number of MPs from the alliance parties who entered Parliament from the CHP lists. According to Kılıçdaroğlu, natural election processes should not be equated with election, in which the election process is carried out unanimously. Kılıçdaroğlu based his opinion as follows:

■ It is different from an electoral process in which the CHP enters alone, and that the parties enter the elections with a collective understanding. It is the biggest mistake to comment out the same frame as if it were the same frame.

■ Yes, we were an alliance. 5 parties entered the election under the CHP logo, and that’s true. My opinion on the subject that you gave too many deputies, you gave less is the following: This problem is more than a party, it is a problem of Turkey. We have to look like this. If you bring up the problem and reduce it to the number of deputies that a party will obtain from its own lists, it means that you do not understand the problem that Turkey is experiencing or you are approaching it with prejudice. People are jailed, young people are rounded up and arrested just because they tweet. Journalists read your articles several times and ask: “Am I going to get in trouble or not?” The economy has already gone off the rails. We are going to the elections in a process where all kinds of fraud are carried out.

■ After the election, as if we had made a natural choice, we forgot all the facts and said: “The CHP entered the election alone and received parliamentary candidates from other parties. Why were our party members not included in the parliamentary lists? This is a superficial understanding. They cannot understand the realities of Türkiye.

■ It is necessary to look at it this way: Another party won 11 metropolitan municipalities, such as Ankara, Istanbul, Adana, Mersin, Antalya and others? It is such a thing that the friends who say this have internalized the defeat and think in an environment that “We experience a defeat after each election.” So we’re weird.

ONE OF TWO VOTERS

■ That’s right, we didn’t win. But in this country, 25 million people, one in two voters, voted for democracy. What was the motivation that made 25 million people vote for democracy? Why are 25 million people ignoring us?