Mr Kirchstarolu is a bookish former bureaucrat in his seventies and rather an assuming grandfatherly one can say. Many think that his manner could be something of an antidote for Erdogan's political style, cooling down tensions at home and abroad. But the problem with him might be, or so pulls over the past year, suggested that he might be unelectable. And presumably that opposition coming from within the table of six has not helped her own chances.