CHP Deputy Ali Mahir Başarır stated, "We will not give up on İmamoğlu" in the event that İmamoğlu faces a political ban.

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CHP Group Deputy Chairman and Mersin Deputy Ali Mahir Başarır was the guest of the presenter Gökay Kalaycıoğlu on the Haber Bahane program held in the Haberler.com studio.

Kalaycıoğlu asked the CHP deputy who the party's presidential candidate would be in response to the possibility of a political ban on Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. Ali Mahir Başarır stated that the CHP administration is working intensively on this issue, saying, "We won't easily give up on Ekrem Bey."

"WE WON'T GIVE UP"

CHP's Ali Mahir Başarır continued his statements as follows: First of all, I don't know if the court of appeals will show that courage; my greatest wish is that it does not, and my advice to them is not to do this evil to this country, but this decision will definitely be overturned by the Supreme Court. They won't be able to impose this penalty on Ekrem Bey. Then the country will go to another point, it won't work. This was done to him. What happened? He was politically banned for a month, and then he returned to politics and governed the country. I think they won't do this evil to someone else, they shouldn't do it. There will be very high-level reactions. There will be major events. We cannot accept this. It is a matter of madness for us. It should be the same for 86 million people because it wouldn't be a legal decision; it would be an ordered decision. Imposing a ban on someone who is so loved in Turkey and one of the presidential candidates with an ordered decision is something we cannot accept. I mean, we won't say, "Ekrem Bey didn't happen, let it be him." Everyone should know this. We won't easily give up on Ekrem Bey. Tayyip Bey should know this. He is very valuable to us. For me, he is already a very valuable person, a precious person. Ekrem İmamoğlu is a value for us, for the party. I always say this. They shouldn't even think about it.