Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Pervin Buldan on Tuesday outlined her party’s ambitions and called on citizens to unite with the Green Left Party to achieve at least 100 seats in the upcoming elections, during a final group meeting before presidential and parliamentary voting begins in Turkey on the 14 May.
Buldan declared that the HDP’s priority was to achieve at least 100 seats in the Turkish parliament and expressed confidence that this is an achievable aim. Buldan also promised to remove the ‘political wreckage’ caused by the current government, a coalition of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).
She emphasised that the HDP would demand accountability from the AKP-MHP for the crises the government has caused over the past 21 years. Buldan asserted that the the Green Left Party will bring about a new dawn with a “Green Left spring” for Turkey and replace the “black winter” imposed on the country by the current government.
Buldan appealed to citizens tired of the AKP-MHP government’s “threatening and oppressive order”, to join the HDP in burying the government in the ballot boxes. She urged the public to unite with the HDP and other parties to bring about change and create a new path for Turkey. “The address of the new road we have created is the Green Left Party. Our path is the Green Left,” she said.
Buldan stressed the importance of the HDP’s alliances with Kurdish parties and women’s groups in the upcoming elections, and said that on 14 May they would unite with women to overthrow the “one-man regime” and bring democratic unity to the public. Buldan expressed her confidence that everyone who turns to the Green Left will see the future they want.