Ozgur Ozel replaces Kemal Kilicdaroglu and will lead CHP into local elections on March 31.
Ozgur Ozel, makes a speech as he attends a CHP gathering at Ankara Sports Hall on November 4, 2023. / Photo: AFP
Ozel, 49, has been serving as the party's deputy parliamentary group chairman since 2015 and has been a lawmaker since 2011. On Saturday, Ozel received 812 of 1,366 possible votes at a tense, hours-long party congress in Ankara that took two rounds.
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