The alliance has a joint presidential candidate, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Each party is expected to nominate candidates for parliament separately.
On 23 October 2018, after a series of public disagreements between the AK Party and MHP, the MHP chairman Devlet Bahçeli formally announced that his party would no longer seek to field joint mayoral candidates in the March 2019 local elections. In response, Erdoğan stressed that the two parties were fundamentally different, and must go their separate ways on issues they disagreed on.[citation needed]
Public disagreements focused on a general pardon for pro-MHP prisoners, as well as a court decision to annul the abolition of the Student Oath. The oath had been abolished during the Solution process by the AK Party government in an attempt to appease the PKK, who regarded its recital as racist. The court's decision to re-establish it was strongly supported by the MHP, while opposed by the AK Party.[citation needed] However, both parties stressed that they didn't regard this as a dissolution of the alliance in the Turkish parliament and that the suspension of the electoral alliance for the local elections was only temporary.[18]
On March 11, 2023, HÜDA PAR leader Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu announced that it would support the People's Alliance for the 2023 Turkish general election, also stating that it would continue its talks with the Alliance for the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election.[19] The party will run within AKP's list.[20] After some contradicting reports, New Welfare Party joined the People's Alliance on March 24, 2023.[21][22]
After the formation of the alliance, there was speculation in the Turkish media, as well as among prominent analysts and politicians, that other minor parties could join it before the 24 June 2018 elections. The parties most commonly mentioned as potential future members were the Great Unity Party (BBP) and the Felicity Party (SP).[25] While the SP ruled out joining the alliance, the BBP entered talks to join.[26] In early May 2018, the BBP ultimately joined the alliance on the lists of the AKP,[27] while the Felicity Party instead aligned with the opposition Nation alliance led by the Republican People's Party.
On 2023, both BBP and YRP contested on their own lists as part of the alliance.
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^Farnen, Russell F., ed. (2004). Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity: Cross National and Comparative Perspectives. Transaction Secularism Publishers. p. 252. ISBN9781412829366. ..the nationalist-fascist Turkish National Movement Party (MHP).
^Gerges, Fawaz (2016). Contentious Politics in the Middle East. Springer. p. 297.
^"People's Alliance is home of true nationalists of Türkiye: Erdoğan". Daily Sabah. 22 May 2023. Erdoğan thanked self-styled nationalist Sinan Oğan for his endorsement but he rejected claims of bargaining to secure his support. "We had talks with (Mr). Oğan here in my office and today he announced he would support me and the People's Alliance. I thank him on behalf of myself and my party," the president told a live broadcast on TRT Haber.
