Politics · Turkey · 8 hrs ago
YENİ Parti members vote in leadership preselection before party congress
YENİ Parti is holding a leadership preselection before its first party congress on November 14-15.
About 800,000 party members are eligible to vote at polling places across Turkey’s 81 provinces.
Members who joined by November 5 can cast ballots, with more than 3,000 ballot boxes set up at local party offices.
Özgür Özel is expected to be the only candidate in the preselection.
The vote lets members indicate their choice before the congress, but delegates will formally elect the party leader there.
The party is also preparing to choose a new Party Assembly, and attention is on who will join its leadership.
YENİ Parti members are voting in a leadership preselection before the party’s first ordinary congress.
About 800,000 party members are eligible to vote at more than 3,000 ballot boxes across 81 provinces.
Özgür Özel is expected to be the only candidate in the preselection.
The congress, scheduled for November 14 and 15, will choose the party leader through delegates’ votes.
- Who
- About 800,000 YENİ Parti members are eligible to vote. Özgür Özel is expected to be the sole candidate.
- What
- Party members are voting in a leadership preselection before the party congress.
- When
- Sabah reports voting on November 7, 2026; Milliyet does not specify the voting date.
- Where
- At party provincial and district offices across 81 provinces in Turkey.
- Why
- The preselection gives members a vote on the leadership before delegates choose the party leader at the congress.
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Sabah reports that party members are voting in the leadership preselection at ballot boxes across 81 provinces.
YENİ Parti is scheduled to hold its first ordinary congress, where delegates will elect the party leader.
- Eligible members
- About 800,000
- Ballot boxes
- More than 3,000
- Coverage
- 81 provinces
- Expected preselection candidate
- Özgür Özel
- Party congress
- November 14–15, 2026