Selcuk Yildiz, a candidate from the Yeniden Refah party, won the municipal elections on March 31 and became the new mayor of the city of Geive in Sakarya province. Upon taking up his duties, Yildiz announced the decision to sell a Mercedes car owned by the municipality: "Before the elections, we made a promise to our citizens that we would end waste, so we started saving the municipality's money at the expense of expensive official cars."