Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan outlined a thorny calendar for the ongoing work of Parliament’s Constitution Conciliation Commission yesterday, setting their deadline as the end of 2012, while underlining the significance of the next presidential elections for his governing party, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
“We haven’t tyrannized over anybody,” Erdoğan told his parliamentary group, referring to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) majority in Parliament, and underlined that all four political parties were being represented by an equal number of deputies in Parliament’s Constitution Conciliation Commission.
“We wish making a new constitution all together as a nation. We are determined to continue this work in Parliament without leaving the table. The duration is obvious, either it is done by the end of the year or from now on we will say ‘nobody should keep us busy,’ and we will continue on our path,” Erdoğan said.
“We will never be the party who leaves the table. Even if we remain on our own at that table, we will exert our best effort.”
