İYİ Party Chairman Meral Akşener made a surprise appearance at her party's group meeting today and nominated Organization President Buğra Kavuncu for Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor and Turhan Çömez for Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality.
At the candidate introduction meeting, İYİ Party Chairman Akşener said that she accepted the presidential candidacy offer of Cengiz Topel Yıldırım, whom she introduced as "my brother who is perfect for his name", saying "Of course, it is an honor for me to serve Ankara". "Welcome aboard," said Akşener, adding, "I come to the stage with the confidence and belief that you will be the leader and the leading player in the formation of a system and a claim where the İYİ Party wins Ankara, good municipalism is implemented, we come to power in 2028, and the presidential candidate is elected when we say this." I am inviting." said.
Expressing his views later, Yıldırım stated that it was "an indescribable honor and a great responsibility" for him to be deemed worthy of being the mayoral candidate of Ankara on the 100th anniversary of the Republic, and also criticized the 2-year Mansur Yavaş administration in Ankara. "Ankara, which has been the capital of our country for a century, has not been able to mobilize its current potential," said Yıldırım, adding: "Ankara has become the city of stagnation. Death did not come to Ankara, but life left Ankara. When we look at the last 5 years, our Ankara is at a loss. "Ankara, which has wasted its energy with frivolous projects for about 30 years, has fallen into the clutches of laziness and negligence instead of getting back on its feet in the last 25 years." he said.
