President says he selected a party's candidates

While criticizing the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an recently said: ?We did not nominate a fake mufti in Diyarbak?r or a gay candidate in Eski?ehir. We do not have such issues.? 

Up to now he has been criticizing the programs of the opposition parties. He was trying to reply to opposition leaders but doing so within an artificial ?impartiality show.? 

But with the words above, for the first time he personally admitted that he picked the deputy candidates of the ruling party himself. 

Just like a party leader, he said, ?We did not nominate a fake mufti in Diyarbak?r or a gay candidate in Eski?ehir.? 

That?s how we learned it from him. 

He has sworn on his honor to be impartial, as a requirement of the constitution. This may not have a meaning for him, but it does have a meaning for us.

We want a president who is loyal to his oath, who will not cast doubts on his honor. That?s all we want.

On the same day, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu delivered a speech in Siirt. He also said, ?the HDP is nominating muftis in the southeast while it is nominating atheists in the west.?

We can derive from this that the speeches of the president and the prime minister are written by the same crew. 

This means that the theme of the day was to center on the HDP?s mufti, atheist and gay candidates. Both formed the same sentences with different words; both effectively rephrased the same content.

What is wrong with the nomination of muftis, atheists or gays? Are they not also citizens of this country? Do they not have the right to elect and be elected? 

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