"Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has informally announced his candidacy for presidential elections, however there is no change in our party's stance towards his presidential candidacy," Mustafa Ozyurek, deputy chairman of Republican People's Party (CHP), told reporters prior to CHP Central Executive Board (MYK) meeting in Ankara on Wednesday.

If Gul runs for presidency again, CHP's stance towards this candidacy will not change because the votes for CHP in general elections entail us to do so, Ozyurek said.