13.11.2018 Ankara
The Union of Chambers and Stock Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu expressed disagreement with the law proposal which would allow Chamber-Exchange-Union presidents who had to leave their positions in order to take part in parliamentary representative elections to return to previous positions if they were not elected.
Hisarcıklıoğlu’s
statement is as follows:
“With
a law proposal submitted to the Grand National Assembly today, the Chamber-Exchange-Union
Presidents, who had to leave their posts for parliamentary or local elections, it
was asked that the way be opened for them to be reinstated in their previous
posts if they were not elected. I do not think this is right and I believe that
the law proposal should be withdrawn.
The
distinction between our office and politics is marked by a clear line. Once
this line is punctured, the daily politics will permeate by the institutions we
represent, from which the producers, traders and industrialists who entrust
these duties to us will suffer.
The
exact line between taking up a role in this community and taking part in
politics must be preserved.”