Demirtaş: President and AKP aren't compromising on Monitoring Committee

2015-04-08 15:29:27

ANKARA (DİHA) - HDP General Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said the President and AKP were not compromising on the Monitoring Committee.

HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) General Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş came together with reporters in Ankara and responded the questions. HDP General Co-chair Demirtaş said the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling AKP government were not compromising on the Monitoring Committee.

'Tension inside AKP is affecting solution process negatively'

Demirtaş added, "There is not development on the Monitoring Committee. We offered a basin of names. There were 15-20 people whose remorse giving confidense to all the society. The government would prepare such a basin. We would enter into a cooperation. There would be a joint list. But the government was not doing this. The president is preparing a list with a high hand and the government is doing the same. They are not compromising on the Monitoring Committee. Deferral of the Monitoring Committe is not resulted from us. Tension inside the AKP is affecting the solution process negatively. This chaos in the AKP is utmost normal, as it has begun to take on water."

'No peace can occur at parliament without HDP'

One of the reported asked him, "Did the process put on a fridge?" and Demirtaş answered, "It has not put on the fridge. The success of the HDP is the solution process itself. This process has locked on the success of the HDP. If the HDP exists in the parliament, this will be hope for a democratic civilian constitution. No peace can occur at the parliament without HDP."

Delegation to visit Imrali

Demirtaş stressed that AKP was on the verge of losing ruling, HDP on the brink of exceeding the election threshold. He said on the Imrali visits, "The delegation must visit Imrali more frequently. Our friends could go the island. The parliament is off, no laws will take out, no steps will be taken. Maybe the talks will go on. Maybe the negotiations will start, but the steps have been left for post-election term."

(nt)