Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday introduced the Justice and Development (AK) Party‘s manifesto forward of the March 31 native elections.
HERE ARE SOME KEY POINTS FROM PRESIDENT ERDOĞAN’S STATEMENTS:
”To obtain nice goals, one should make good preparations, work diligently with sincerity and willpower. We are a workforce that launched into a journey of service to the nation and the nation 30 years in the past, beginning in municipalities; we’re a motion of this sort. With the precept “Serving the people is serving the Creator,” we first gained the hearts of our folks with our successes within the cities. After coming to energy, we continued to attach each inch of the homeland with investments, initiatives, and companies, with the identical sentiment. We not solely addressed the infrastructure deficiencies and century-old neglects of the nation but in addition constructed the way forward for the nation with our 2023 targets and our Türkiye Century imaginative and prescient.”
”We have decided the title of our election manifesto as Real municipalism for the cities of Türkiye Century.
OUR MANIFESTO CONSISTS OF 8 MAIN TOPICS:
– AK Party Local Governance Vision
– Participation, Transparency, and Accountability
– Resilient Cities
– City and Environment in Türkiye Century
– Social Welfare-Prioritized Urban Economies
– Social Municipalism for Peaceful and Social Structure
– Cities Generating Culture
– Service and Project-Oriented Municipalism”
”This manifesto serves as each a abstract of AK Party’s municipal experience, which has now develop into a model, and a doc embodying the guarantees now we have made to our nation for the brand new period. AK Party, as in each subject, competes with itself in municipal governance. In this regard, now we have but to see a neighborhood governance imaginative and prescient and implementation that may match or surpass AK Party’s, not to mention exceed it.”
”Our sole focus is on the wants of our nation and cities, in addition to the expectations of our folks. Indeed, the metro line inaugurated simply yesterday in Istanbul, constructed by our Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, stands as the latest and concrete instance of this method. Similarly, the City Hospital we opened in Izmir is one other illustration.”
”The rightful proprietor of every little thing good, stunning, and useful that we produce, implement, and convey to the nation is our nation. We current our ‘Real Municipalism for the Cities of Türkiye Century’ program as a collective reward to our folks, contemplating it because the widespread worth of each particular person dwelling in our nation. The imaginative and prescient upon which our election manifesto is constructed is the results of our 30 years of municipal expertise and the fruits of the worldwide energy degree our nation has achieved via political, financial, and navy power.”
”In line with this, our priorities in native governments for the brand new period will embrace: establishing resilient and disaster-resistant settlements, adapting our cities to local weather change, implementing infrastructure suitable with sensible purposes and next-generation digital applied sciences, and strengthening the understanding of native governance targeted on native improvement and value-added economic system. We will depart clear cities with clear air, water, soil, and environment for our kids. We goal to adorn our nation with cities which have preserved aesthetic, historic, and cultural belongings, creating peaceable and safe city environments.”
”We are constructing our dedication to “Real Municipalism,” which varieties the essence of our imaginative and prescient, on the next 13 basic ideas: Productive, simply, accessible, visionary, compassionate, sustainable, modern, developmental, modern, sturdy, inclusive, dynamic, and patriotic municipal governance. Essentially, with all these ideas, approaches, targets, every of which we are able to elaborate with dozens, lots of of subtopics, we are going to assemble the “Cities of Türkiye Century” as if laying brick by brick.”
”The AK Party is understood for asserting vital initiatives in each normal and native elections. If you observe, in current elections, we not place giant initiatives on the heart of our election guarantees. Beyond being a regional energy, each challenge of Türkiye, which is now progressing in direction of changing into a rustic with a worldwide voice and affect, is already substantial.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr