CHP Spokesperson Müslim Sarı Announced the Withdrawal of the Innovation Party Case

The Innovation Party applied to the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court of Appeals, requesting that the name of the YENİ Party be changed on the grounds that it was similar to their own party names.

Butlan CHP's Spokesperson Müslim Sarı made evaluations about the meeting agenda at the CHP Headquarters after his party's Central Executive Board (MYK) meeting.

When asked about the allegations that the CHP and the Innovation Party were in talks, Sarı said, "We are following these allegations with astonishment. In other words, the information that the esteemed members of the press have obtained from the backstage and the evaluations about them; we respect all of them. However, we would like to present these unconfirmed and inconsistent news, written without talking to anyone, to the public's discretion. No executive of the CHP is in any meeting, meeting or contact with the Innovation Party, officially or unofficially. Especially the ones we talked about today. "It is not about the issues at all. Such a meeting is completely imaginary," he said.

WHEN WILL THE CONGRESS BE HELD?

Speaking about the internal party issues on the MYK agenda, Sarı made the following statements regarding the congress process and the appeal:

"In order to be able to hold the congresses and conventions of the Republican People's Party - the congress that results from these congresses - in an open, clear and transparent manner, away from any legal debates, any legal disputes or doubts, we have withdrawn our appeal to the Supreme Court so that this decision can be finalized as soon as possible. This is the purpose here, so there is no need to create fantasies around it.

"DEBATES AND LEGAL DISCUSSIONS ON THIS ISSUE ARE VALUE"

There were other plaintiffs here other than us, and these plaintiffs also withdrew their cases. Therefore, there is no longer any obstacle for us to hold the congress and to hold the congresses safely and in accordance with the law. Therefore, evaluations that there will still be a Supreme Court review here are not correct. As you know, there have been requests and applications for accessory intervention; Party Assembly, members of the previous term Party Assembly, members of the High Disciplinary Board... However, since the main plaintiff is the Republican People's Party and the Republican People's Party has given up on this as the main plaintiff, accessory intervention does not create a condition for appeal, according to the current law. Therefore, discussions and legal discussions on this issue are futile.

Again, the plaintiff... For example, one of the issues discussed was this: 'If you had the authority to shoot this, why didn't you shoot it before? What legal obstacles would there have been if you had withdrawn it before?' First of all, the fact that we withdrew the case did not eliminate this appeal process. Because there were 4 more plaintiffs. We made this happen after these plaintiffs withdrew their cases; This is the first one. Secondly, as you know, we did not withdraw our decision by accepting that Mr. Özgür Özel made this application on behalf of the Republican People's Party, even though he had no authority after the nullity decision, and by respecting his will at that moment, his will at that moment in the psychological environment, even though we thought he was unauthorized.

"AS A RESULT OF THIS NECESSITY, WE DROPPED THIS CASE"

However, we all know the subsequent political developments. In the subsequent political developments, when a political separation, a departure from the institutional identity of the Republican People's Party, discussions about this, unnecessary legal pressures and related discussions emerged, we clearly saw that this process could no longer be carried on in this way. A judicial recess period then began. Since it is not possible for us to do this during the judicial recess period and the other 4 plaintiffs have withdrawn their appeal, it has become necessary for the Republican People's Party to end this process and to eliminate such discussions on the Republican People's Party and the congress. As a result of this obligation, we have withdrawn our petition for the decision to be finalized.

After this stage, there are no legal obstacles to the congresses and congresses of the Republican People's Party. After the decision is finalized - we think that this decision will be finalized in approximately 1-1.5 months - these are our legal evaluations.

Sarı continued his words as follows:

"For 2027, it is among our priorities to create a Local Government Reform, a local governments program and at the same time a Performance Tracking System that measures the performance of the Republican People's Party municipalities. I would like to state that we especially attach importance to this Performance Tracking System in terms of providing some objective guides to the decision makers regarding the criteria by which the mayors of the Republican People's Party will be re-elected. Therefore, what we are discussing today is about the mayors who were elected from the Republican People's Party but transferred to other parties, especially the AKP." "We plan, hope and evaluate that we will not experience or see these discussions again within the framework of these objective criteria."