HDP co-chair Sezai Temelli, HDP Provincial co-chair Yadişen Karabulak, DBP Provincial co-chair Ayla Tarhan, Van Deputies Muazzez Orhan, Metropolitan Municipality co-mayor candidates Bedia Özgökçe, Mustafa Avcı, İpekyolu Municipal co-mayor candidates Şehzade Kurt, Azim Yacan, DTK representatives, TJA activists, civil society organisations representatives, HDP Party Assembly Member Yunus Parim and DBP-HDP districts and organizations joined an event organised in a hotel in İpekyolu.

İpekyolu HDP co-mayor Bahattin Karaman opened the event by saluting the resistance of HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven and the hunger strikers. He also commended Ayten Beçet who ended her life in Gebze Prison to protest the isolation of Öcalan.

Sezai Temelli talked about Turkey's economic, political and social problems and stated that this is a very serious and dedicate moment for the country. Noting that these problems can be overcome with a new democracy and local democracy, Temelli said that the HDP is going to the elections proposing local democracy and radical democracy.

“The Democratic Nation, - he said - proposes a radical democracy we call the Democratic Republic. We are going to the polls to get rid of the State-appointed trustees. Today, the AKP and the MHP bloc divides the society and the country. We are building a local democracy that invites the community to live together. We call this social democracy. We want everyone to participate in decision-making mechanisms and thus promote self-government from the people and for the people.”