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Over the weekend, Turkey's long-standing president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced the date of the presidential election.

May 14th.

And I'm sure that the 14th election will be held in the 14th election.

For two decades, first as Prime Minister and since 2014 as president, Mr Erdogan and his Justice and Development or AK Party have led the country.

Over that time, his leadership has become ever more autocratic. Political freedoms have been curtailed. The media gagged.

But this election presents a rare opportunity for change in a country that's been devastated by soaring inflation and then last month by deadly earthquakes.

These competing disasters have exposed the fault lines in Turkish politics and sensing opportunity, six disparate opposition parties have banded together.

That table of six has at last rallied around a candidate.

And the election will be a question of how well the opposition's man campaigns and just how much Mr Erdogan wants to keep his post.

With fewer than 65 days before Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections, Kemal Kirichdarol, the head of the opposition Republican People's Party or CHP, has emerged as the challenger to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president.

Piotr Zalewski is our Turkey correspondent.

On March 6th, he was chosen by a group of six opposition party leaders of which he was won as their presidential candidate.

But his ascension to the candidacy has been challenging to say the least. And that may impact his chances and perhaps the entire opposition's at the ballot box.

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