Opposition political celebration CTP chief Tufan Erhurman leads a ballot printed on Wednesday asking Turkish Cypriots who they are going to vote for in subsequent 12 months’s Turkish Cypriot management election.
The ballot was carried out by CMIRS and requested a complete of 500 folks nose to nose who they might vote for.
Erhurman, who served because the north’s ‘prime minister’ between 2018 and 2019, leads the best way with 35.5 per cent, with incumbent Turkish Cypriot chief Ersin Tatar in second place, with 29.2 per cent.
Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci is in a distant third place with 7.7 per cent, barely forward of Kudret Ozersay, who garnered 7.5 per cent of respondents’ help.
Ozersay was Dervish Eroglu’s chief negotiator for the Cyprus downside, earlier than coming into frontline politics and serving as ‘overseas minister’ between 2018 and 2020.
Serdar Denktash, son of late Turkish Cypriot chief Rauf Denktash, is in fifth place, with 5 per cent of respondents having stated they might vote for him.
‘Transport minister’ Erhan Arikli is in sixth place, on 4.6 per cent.
Different names talked about by respondents included former ‘MP’ for Kudret Ozersay’s celebration the HP Gulsah Sanver Manavoglu, former ‘prime minister’ Sibel Siber, retired choose Emine Dizdarli, and Mehmet Ali Talat’s chief negotiator for the Cyprus downside Ozdil Nami.
Of these potential candidates, solely Serdar Denktash has confirmed outright that he’ll run for election subsequent 12 months, having knowledgeable the Cyprus Mail of his intentions in September final 12 months.
Ersin Tatar is overwhelmingly prone to run for re-election, having stated final month he’s “constructing as much as” a marketing campaign, whereas Mehmet Harmanci additionally seems prone to stand, having stated in January “it’s not attainable for a politician who acquired 49 per cent of the votes to remain solely with the Nicosia Turkish Municipality.”
Erhurman has remained coyer, nonetheless, having informed newspaper Yeni Duzen on Monday “I don’t have both a particular ‘no’, nor a particular ‘sure’.”
“That is one thing associated to the CTP’s traditions. Regardless of the celebration decides, we’ll act accordingly,” he added.
Of the ten potential candidates listed by the survey, six have run in earlier Turkish Cypriot management elections. Tatar, Erhurman, Ozersay, Arikli, and Denktash all ran in the newest elections in 2020, ending in first, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth place respectively.
2020 was Ozersay’s second marketing campaign, having completed in fourth place in 2015 as nicely. Sibel Siber additionally ran in 2015, ending in third place.
