HDP Requests Discretionary Fund to be Abolished

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Group Deputy Chairpersons Pervin Buldan and İdris Baluken proposed parliamentary research for the discretionary fund to be abolished and expenses of the presidency to be revealed.

HDP stated that the presidency had the right with the votes of Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies to ‘surreptitiously’ use the discretionary fund and it was against the law.

HDP also stated that annual budget of the presidency, 3 billion Turkish liras, which were allegedly collected from the discretionary fund to intervene in Syria and to form youth branches linked to the presidency should be researched.

CHP appealed to the Constitutional Court

Republican People’s Party (CHP) Group Deputy Chairperson Akif Hamzaçebi appealed to the Constitutional Court related to the regulation which gave the right to the President to use the discretionary fund. (NV/BD)

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