Özel's New Party raises 182 million lira from nearly 86,000 donors in 48 hours

Party lawmaker Özgür Ceylan said on July 31 that 85,975 people had given a total of 182,068,243 lira, about 3.8 million dollars, since leader Özgür Özel launched the appeal on Wednesday; the first 24 hours brought 113.8 million lira from 31,934 donors. Several of the party's deputies have pledged a month's parliamentary salary to the campaign. Because the New Party has not yet contested a general election it draws no Treasury funding, while the AKP is allocated 2.55 billion lira and the CHP 1.82 billion lira for 2026, which makes the appeal a rough measure of how broadly the new opposition party is actually rooted.

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