Main opposition CHP leader calls on citizens to punish thieves at elections

Source: 
Hürriyet Daily News
Publication date: 
Mar 02 2014

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader has called on citizens to punish the thieves at the upcoming local elections, continuing to press the government over corruption allegations. 

“I am addressing my citizens who voted for the AKP, of which the country’s prime minister calls his son, asks him to set the money to ‘zero’ at home? Does your conscience accept this?” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said during an election rally March 2 in the Thracian province of Edirne. 

Kılıçdaoğlu also addressed mothers, saying the reason for the corruption and unemployment in the country was the prime minister. Everyone should think about the country and their children, not their selves, he added. 

A thief and liar cannot govern a country and the prime minister should step down, Kılıçdaroğlu said, underlining the size of the corruption was roughly 87 billion euro and the money that was taken out of the Erdoğan estate was one billion euro. 

Everybody should go to the ballot box and punish the one who stole, Kılıçdaoğlu said. 

“Are you going to vote for the sons of this country or the sons of shady ministers?” he asked, adding the CHP is the place where the sons of this nation meet.