Eight parties have nominated 50 candidates each in six "provinces" for the upcoming January 23, 2022 "parliamentary elections". The 400 nominations so far will be submitted to the "supreme electoral council" tomorrow, while the total number is expected to be higher with the submission of independent nominations as well.
According to the GMP, all parties have announced their lists of candidates except the "Independent Road" movement, which said it will announce its own candidates tomorrow after submitting the list to the "supreme electoral council".
The eight parties that will take part in the "early parliamentary elections" are: National Unity Party (UBP), Republican Turkish Party (CTP), People's Party (HP), Socialist Democracy Party (TDP), Democratic Party (DP), Renaissance Party (YDP), Community Liberation Party - New Forces (TKP-YG), Independent Way (BY).
Moreover, three parties have already announced that they will not take part in the "elections" for "various reasons", according to the newspaper. These are the United Cyprus Party (UKP), the Socialist Party of Cyprus (KSP) and the New Cyprus Party (YKP).
The publication of the final list of candidates in the "elections" will be made public on December 27 by the "Supreme Electoral Council" and the "election campaign will start on December 28 and will end the day before the vote, i.e. on January 22, 2022.
The "electoral rolls" are expected to be completed on January 3, 2022 and the last day on which polls and surveys for the "elections" are allowed to be published is January 8, 2022.
United Cyprus Party chairman Izzet Izjan said that efforts are being made to create the wrong impression that the choice of those boycotting the "elections" is for the CEC to win. They have nothing to do with the CTP, he added, and that the most important factor that will play a role in this party winning the 'elections' is the leaderships of the Republican Turkish and Community Republican parties who have rejected repeated calls to unite under one roof (that of the CTP) or to boycott the 'elections' en masse.
Izzan accused the PKK of behaving as it did in the "presidential elections" when it nominated its own candidate in the first round and caused Mustafa Akinci's defeat, adding that some people within the CTP are obsessed with Mehmet Chakitzi (chairman of the Community Liberation Party).
Izzan said that the KEK together with the New Cyprus Party, the Federal Cyprus Movement and other organisations decided to boycott the "elections" and intensified their efforts in this direction. He said they will tour all neighbourhoods and all platforms and explain their position to the "people."
According to Izcan, their first objective is to have a turnout at the polls of 50% or lower which will be an important message of occupation given to the people. "The result obtained at the ballot box later on will ensure important messages in terms of the last point the country came to thanks to the contacts that will be held with the parties involved in the Cyprus problem."
The occupied territories, he continued, are facing a serious risk of occupation aimed at the annihilation of Turkish Cypriots and described the CEC as a puppet of the AKP in Turkey, saying that Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP have sold everything in Turkey to foreign capital."The only card left in Erdogan's hands is Cyprus, but neither we nor the international public opinion will allow this," he concluded.
Source: CNA
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