Bozdağ Thinks Individual Applications Against Immunities to be Ruled ‘Inadmissible’

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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MPs applied to the Constitutional Court (AYM) yesterday (May 26) for the nullity of the legislative proposal concerning parliamentary immunities.

Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul MP, Sezgin Tanrıkulu as well applied to the Constitutional Court and demanded stay order be issued.

Bozdağ in his statement today on Twitter claimed that the legislation as to the parliamentary immunities cannot be subject to individual application.

“AYM will rule of inadmissibility”

Bozdağ wrote as follows as to the matter:

“CHP on one hand says the proposal in unconstitutional, on the other says they will vote ‘aye’ to the amendment but around 110 MPs vote ‘against’.

“CHP says they will kick out the MPs signing the petition of the HDP which requires 51 signatures to take the clauses added to the Constitution to the Constitutional Court.

“Kılıçdaroğlu saying CHP MPs will make individual applications to the AYM recommended the HDP to ‘make individual applications’ on NTV.

“Apparently CHP Chair and its MPs are confused about lifting the parliamentary immunities.

“People’s will in favor of ‘lifting parliamentary immunities’ and CHP MPs’ will to not lift it drive CHP to an indecisive politics.

“Besides, it is AYM’s ruling that ‘individual applications cannot be made …. against legal procedures.

“If individual application is made despite that, one doesn’t have to be a legist to say that the Constitutional Court will rule of ‘inadmissibility’”. (AS/TK)