The IYI party, a breakaway of the far-right MHP, which together with the CHP and other parties founded the "Alliance of the Nation" (Millet İttifakı), apparently wants to withdraw from the electoral coalition known as the "Table of Six". The alliance announced after a meeting on Thursday that they had agreed on a common candidate for the presidential election on 12 May, with the name to be announced on Monday. According to reports, the candidate will be CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

However, IYI Chairperson Meral Akşener said today that her party rejected the candidacy of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and called on Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu and Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavaş, both also from the CHP, to run.

The "Alliance of the Nation" is seen as a counterpart to the governing coalition AKP/MHP, which is running as the "People's Alliance" (Cumhur İttifakı) in the upcoming elections in Turkey.

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has formed the Alliance for Labour and Freedom (Emek ve Özgürlük İttifakı) with the Social Freedom Party (TÖP), the Labour Movement Party (EHP), the Federation of Socialist Councils (SMF), the Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP) and the Labour Party (EMEP), which intends to run its own candidate in the parliamentary elections.