Ozel urged President Erdogan to convene early elections in November amid the country’s largest anti-government protests.

Ozgur Ozel was re-elected as leader of the Republican Party (CHP), the main opposition Republican Party (CHP), in the capital Ankara.

Ozel repeated on Sunday that he will continue to fight to release the prison-sentenced mayor of Istanbul Ecrem Immamogl Other mayors have been charged with corruption, assisting the Workers’ Party (PKK) that bans the Kurds and leading criminal organizations.

He also called for plans to propose the 2028 presidential election for this year’s “Latest November”, which he said would view Imamogru as a presidential candidate for the Centre for Health Protection.

Meeting dates rise

More than 1,300 delegates of the Health Conference gathered to elect the party’s main executive body and chairman.

Ozel was the sole contender for the presidential position, getting votes from 1,171 delegates and keeping his seat.

Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu said in Ankara’s report that the conference was originally scheduled to be held in November.

Under normal circumstances, the party held such a convention every two years, she said, adding that the alleged attempt to appoint the trustee as the party when prosecutors investigate allegations of violations.

Our correspondent said: “The party immediately decided to hold a parliament.”

“Given the turmoil after Imamugru’s arrest, there has been a huge support for the opposition…from many sectors of society,” she said, adding that the party is working to win voters across the country.

Protest will continue

In his speech, Ozel praised demonstration The trigger for the arrest of Imamoglu last month, widely regarded as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest political threat, “the biggest motion of condemnation in history.”

He called on all CHP members, their representatives and other executives to remain united and continue the political struggle in all possible places.

“We will continue to rallies and protests in the coming days,” he said. “Every weekend we will be in a provincial city and every Wednesday we will have night rally in an area of ​​Istanbul. We will start with Samsung next week.”

In the days after Imamogru’s arrest, the Centre for Health Protection attracted thousands of protesters in Istanbul and many other cities to condemn the government’s actions.

Erdogan denied that the allegations against Imamoglu were politically motivated. He had previously accused Imamoglu of being a pawn of foreign interests.

The president called the current wave of protests a “violent movement” and accused the health center leaders of “covering those who attacked police with stones and axes”, pointing to more than 100 police officers injured in the rally so far.

In response, Turkiye cuts the protests. Authorities have detained nearly 2,000 people.

Attorney General Yilmaz Tunc has defended the independence of the judiciary against allegations of political bias, saying Erdogan did not affect Imamoglu’s arrest.