Turkey's HDP will not provide candidate against Erdogan, Kilicdaroglu

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The co-chair of Turkey’s biggest non-aligned political party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), confirmed on Wednesday that it won't provide a candidate against Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the May 14 elections. 

Pervin Buldan stated that her party, along with five allied left-wing groups, intends to campaign against Erdogan’s “one-man rule,” but did not explicitly announce whether she would be endorsing main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

Those who vote for the HDP mainly consider Kilicdaroglu a politician who would be able to represent the rights of the Kurdish minority in Turkey.

The elections are anticipated to be the most polarized this year, determining the fate of 85 million citizens in the nation of 3 continents: Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The elections are supposed to be a litmus test for Erdogan's job performance. It will be the second election since Turkey switched from a parliamentary to a presidential system following a 2017 referendum that granted him broad new powers.

At the beginning of this month, Kilicdaroglu was chosen as the main opposition candidate, and he now poses as Erdogan's main election threat. He is already leading against Erdogan by more than 10 percentage points ahead of the elections.

Erdogan is facing the biggest challenge to his 20-year rule due to economic issues and the high cost of living, not to mention that victims of the earthquake are reconsidering where their loyalties lie after the disaster struck.

The elections will not only decide who will lead Turkey, but they will also decide which direction Turkey's economy will take.