To punish or not to punish the CHP?

I am not sure to what degree the traditional voters of the main opposition Republican People’s Party

(CHP) are following the developments to select candidates for the municipal elections. There might be two reasons for the lack of interest: For some, there is no choice but to vote for the CHP. Therefore, it matters less who will be nominated. For the other group, no matter who gets nominated, it won’t make a difference; the CHP will again lose to the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) - Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) alliance. No doubt, over the course of the last decade, the AK Party has succeeded in creating a sense of helplessness, a feeling of desperation among the supporters of the opposition. Worse, it succeeded in spreading fear. But the CHP also shares the blame for the lack of interest in the municipal elections...The CHP’s presidential candidate, Muharrem Ince, did create a wave of enthusiasm. Those who have worked and voted for him are not angry at the CHP or Ince for losing the election. They are extremely angry about the fact that neither CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu nor Ince were anywhere to be found on the night of the June elections during vote counting. They still do not have proper answers to why they disappeared that night, why the monitoring system that was established to check the votes did not work appropriately...The post-election period gave ample reason to fuel their anger .... Just as was the case in the previous elections, the CHP is again late in nominating their candidates and expects littleknown figures - with three months left to promote them - to win against prominent politicians which the AK Party is preparing to name. For traditional CHP voters, this time it is not going to be about winning or losing. This time it is going to be about whether to punish the CHP and trigger a change.