Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mansur Yavaş described his resignation process from the CHP to Nefes newspaper. Asked "Will you join the AK Party?", he replied, "Look at those sentences in my resignation text."
Yavaş said he had prepared a resignation text after Faik Öztrak's statement, postponed the decision after a call from Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, and resigned after Müslim Sarı's remarks. On a presidential candidacy, he said, "Our priority is Ankara."