Eleven men compete to be the following President of North Cyprus

The initial list of condidates in the upcoming Presidential Election in North Cyprus has been posted . A sum of eleven applicants, all male, have officially applied to the Supreme Electoral Board (YSK).

The list incorporates the officeholder Mustafa Akıncı and pioneers or previous pioneers of five of the six parties in Parliament, in particular Prime Minister Ersin Tatar (UBP), Foreign Minister Kudret Özersay (HP), previous Prime Minister Tufan Erhürman (CHP), Prof. Erhan Arıklı (YDP), and Serdar Denktaş (DP).

Four of the other five applicants are remaining as independents. These are attorneys Alpan Uz and Mustafa Ulaş, merchant and sequential presidential applicant Arif Salih Kırdağ, and Dr. Ahmet Boran, a specialist turned cosmologist who is as of now under investigation for “annoying” President Erdoğan of Turkey. The last applicant is Dr. Fuat Çiner of the extreme right Milliyetçi Demokrasi Partisi (MDP).

The election for the following president of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) will be hung on Sunday 11 October. It was initially booked to occur on 26 April 2020, yet was deferred for a half year due to the Covid pandemic.

With Covid infection rates increasing again in the TRNC, and a recently reported restriction on open gatherings in different TRNC towns, there are fears the elections might be deferred once more.

That view was reinforced after it developed at the end of the week that one of the condidates; Erhan Arıklı, the pioneer of the Rebirth Party (Yeniden Doğuş Partisi, YDP), and his mission group were having to self-isolate after two senior individuals tested positive for Covid.

TRNC Presidential condidates and pro-Turkey YDP pioneer Erhan Arıklı and his mission group have needed to self-isolate after two senior individuals

Emre Dalgıç, who is top of the YDP Lefkoşa Branch, and Ayfer Altıncuoğlu, who is the YDP Lefkoşa Women’s Group head, both tested positive. It is perceived Altıncuoğlu had freshly visited Turkey.

Prof. Arıklı reported via social media that he and his group were all well, yet had chosen to suspend all lobbying for the following ten days because of the developing contamination rate. They were likewise self-separating at home as a precautionary measure.

Independently, eyebrows were raised at the absence of ladies partaking in the TRNC presidential political race.

In 2015, previous Prime Minister Dr Siber had remained as the possibility for the left-inclining CTP (Republication Turkish Party) and there were bits of gossip she would stand again as a free in 2020, however her name was missing from the rundown distributed by YSK.

Saturday’s front cover of leading TRNC daily Kıbrıs showed photos of each of the eleven condidates, inciting banter about the male-just rundown of competitors via social media.

Baroness Meral Hussein-Ece, the most senior Turkish Cypriot politician in Britain, tweeted: “Very disappointing. Probably what’s wrong with Cyprus (both sides) – women are sidelined.”

In another Facebook conversation, Enfield Councilor Alev Cazimoglu proposed that the TRNC receive EMILY’s List. The American initiative , first presented in 1985, helps ladies with a dynamic political plan to get chose. The US organisation portrays its work on its site as:

“We recruit the strongest candidates, support campaigns that can win, study the electorate, and turn out the vote.”