Solution and EU Party
The Solution and EU Party (, abbreviated as ÇABP) was a political party in Northern Cyprus that never gained parliamentary representation. It was founded in 2003 as an economically right-wing, socially liberal party to promote the reunification of Cyprus under the Annan Plan. It contrasted itself with the other pro-reunification parties, all of which were left-wing. It was dissolved after failing to enter the parliament in the 2003 elections. History The party was founded on 21 August 2003 with Ali Erel, the head of the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce at the time, as its president. Its board of founders was also mostly composed of businesspeople that were members of the Chamber of Commerce. After the submission of the party's founding documents to the Ministry of the Interior on 22 August 2003, Erel held a press conference at Saray Hotel in Nicosia to declare the party's principles. It issued an open call for candidates on 13 October 2003 for the parliamentary election on 15 December. Pre-election polls estimated the party's vote share to be between 2% and 6%. If the party cleared 5%, it would have been able to enter parliament; Etyen Mahçupyan claimed that this would determine whether the