YDP confirms 50 candidates for December election

The slate comprises 16 candidates for Lefkoşa, 12 each for Gazimağusa and Girne, five for İskele, three for Güzelyurt and two for Lefke.

Outlining his party’s priorities, YDP leader Erhan Arıklı called for fairer taxation, measures to bring unregistered economic activity into the tax system and savings in public spending. He said any future coalition agreement should be made public, with a clear timetable for reforms, including changes to public administration and improvements to public transport.

Mr Arıklı heads the Lefkoşa list, Turan Büyükyılmaz leads Gazimağusa and Mehmet Tunçtürk tops the Girne slate. Ömer Tatlı heads İskele, Hakan Bozkurt leads Güzelyurt and Seniha Öztoprak takes first place in Lefke.

The full candidate lists, in the order announced, are:

Lefkoşa: Erhan Arıklı, Bertan Zaroğlu, Ömer Çete, Enver Öztürk, Sinan Tuğantemir, Mehmet Kibaroğlu, Figen Yaman Lesinger, Kazım Kafaoğlu, Mustafa Ambar, Saim Bağrıaçık, Yılmaz Kaldırım, Şaban Dağ, Hatice Özler Şahin, Eda Yenen, Barış Demirkıran and Sinem Tip.

Gazimağusa: Turan Büyükyılmaz, Talip Atalay, Abdülkadir Yiğit, Mehmet Aktaş, Dürdane Abi Acu, Ufuk Özel, Serdar Demir, Aykut Günel, Latif Akça, Mustafa Tan, Zümriye Gürakar and Türkan Ervar.

Girne: Mehmet Tunçtürk, Fuat Tek, Türel Özer, Sinan Güneş, Fatma Pehlivan, Hacı Ali Özdemir, Ramazan Karal, Sami Güneş, Orhan Durgut, Ersin Mengünoğlu, Gamze Peler and Ayşe Öztürk.

İskele: Ömer Tatlı, İsmet İlkhan, Erhan Alar, Salih Taner and Gültekin İslamoğlu.

Güzelyurt: Hakan Bozkurt, Elmas Süzgen and Ahmet Çetin.

Lefke: Seniha Öztoprak and Elif Karakuş.