While an “oath formula” is discussed for the MPs who were elected at June 12 elections but weren’t allowed to take the parliamentary oath because of their “imprisonments”, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) proposed a “three-option formula” to the government to enable the arrested deputies take the parliamentary oath.

The proposals suggest that arrested MPs could take the oath in prison in the presence of the Parliamentary Deputy Speaker or take the oath in prison and be monitored from the General Assembly through videoconferencing or they could be brought to the parliament by a “compassionate leave” and take the oath in the assembly.

Besides the “videoconferencing” system which was used earlier during Silivri trials as well, BDP MPs also proposed that arrested deputies could take the oath in prison in the presence of Parliamentary Deputy Speaker, like in the case of Osman Bölükbaþý who took his oath in prison in 1957.

BDP officials expressed that the government side seemed to have a positive look for the “videoconferencing” system in particular, while the State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdað remarked that an option that could be accepted by everyone hadn’t been put forward yet.