At the recent elections held in Turkey, the turnout was about 85.22%. It is the first time that the ruling party won the election for the third time running. The Justice and Development Party headed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had to receive just 4 mandates more to get 50% of seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and unprecedented authority, which would have enabled it to change the constitution.
However, the Justice and Development Party will have to negotiate with the Kurdish faction, which is set to become more influential in the new parliament, due to its gaining more seats at the recent election than it had before.
The Justice and Development Party received 49.9% of the vote. The Republican People's Party received 25,9%. The Nationalist Movement Party got 13%. So the party composition of the parliament remained the same.
However, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan does not consider the opportunities for changes to the constitution to have run out. Immediately after the announcement of the preliminary results, he said that "the people not merely invested us with the power to rule the country, but also commissioned us with creating the new constitution. All the points of view both of the east and west will be taken into consideration".
Sinan Ogan, a Turkish political scientist who won a mandate at the election, said that the ruling party had used its administrative facilities actively, which made it possible for the party to receive such a high number of votes. However, the intention to transform Turkey into a presidential system failed. Ogan also said that the new parliament will continue pursuing the same international policies as the former one. This implies active interaction with Russia and support for Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The politician thinks that intensification of the European integration of Turkey is unlikely.
Evgeniy Krishtalev, exclusively to VK
