A defection from the CHP restores the New Path bloc's group status

Ali Fazıl Kasap left the Republican People's Party (CHP) on 14 August and joined the New Path alliance, restoring it to the twenty deputies a bloc needs to keep group status in parliament. The bloc had fallen to nineteen after Mustafa Bilici crossed to the governing AKP. Kasap made the same move in December 2023 to save the Felicity Party's group, and his departure leaves the CHP with 44 lawmakers.

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