31.10.2025 17:42
The leader of the New Welfare Party, Fatih Erbakan, stated, "We have long expressed that there should not be a bipolar politics and that there should be a strong third alternative. For this, an electoral alliance can be formed with parties close to the National Vision ideology, such as the Felicity Party and the Future Party, which can create a synergy."
Fatih Erbakan, the Chairman of the New Welfare Party, made statements regarding the agenda during a television broadcast he attended.
"Weren't We Saying THE WILL OF THE NATION?"
Erbakan stated, "Our most important slogan and goal is to ensure justice in both the judiciary and distribution. Our belief requires this, but unfortunately, we see that there is no justice in these three areas." He continued:
"If you look at justice in distribution, the main resources are going to waste, luxury, and ostentation in the public sector, and to privileged holding companies and interest. There is no opportunity left for retirees, civil servants, farmers, and villagers. When we look at justice in the judiciary, different laws are applied to the opposition and different laws to the government. We are not saying 'anyone is guilty or innocent.' The judicial process should continue, but this judicial process must be independent of political influences; it must be a fair trial. While the mayor of the ruling party has 98 cases, all of them are dismissed, but when it comes to the opposition party, an action is taken, this shows that there is no justice in the judiciary, that there is a double standard, and that different laws are applied to the government and the opposition! Injustice has reached such a point that we won the mayoralty in a town in Giresun. The mayor of the district to which that town in Giresun is connected is from the ruling side and cut off the town's water supply. The mayor of Ören town in Giresun was devastated, and in the end, he resigned. Here, the people are essentially being punished. Weren't we saying the will of the nation, we were saying the ballot box…"
"THEY LOST THE OPPORTUNITY TO WEAR THE NATIONAL VIEW SHIRT FOR THE LAST TIME IN THE 2023 ELECTIONS"
"Of course, wearing the National View shirt means preventing Turkey from going into debt. One of the essentials of the National View is to create a balanced budget and to free Turkey from interest payments. The main foundation of the National View is to ensure justice in distribution, governance, and the judiciary. Of course, we worked hard to have them wear the National View shirt again in the 2023 elections, but unfortunately, we could not succeed. What we wrote in the consensus text was actually the requirements of the National View. A balanced budget should be made, unfair resources should not be transferred to the privileged, and resources should be produced with national resource packages and given to retirees, civil servants, farmers, and villagers. First, we should return to the understanding of morality and spirituality. They signed these, said 'okay,' but unfortunately, they continued with the same old practices, and since they lost the chance to wear the National View shirt perhaps for the last time, we expressed that we would not be part of the People's Alliance."
"AN ALLIANCE WITH SAADAT AND FUTURE CAN BE MADE"
Regarding the alliance discussions, Erbakan stated that talks for a 3rd Alliance are ongoing, saying, "We have been expressing that there should not be a bipolar politics and that there should be a strong third alternative for a long time. For this, an election alliance can be formed with parties close to the National View ideology, such as the Saadet Party and the Future Party, which can create a synergy. Citizens want this, our bases want this, but so far, there is nothing officially concluded," he said.
ERBAKAN'S RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION "WILL YOU BE A CANDIDATE FOR THE REPUBLIC?"
Erbakan, who stated that he does not find it right for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to run again, responded to the question of whether he would be a presidential candidate as follows:
"We will be, we have already expressed this. We withdrew from candidacy in the 2023 elections; I do not think it would be a very positive behavior for us to support any name," he said.