The head of the opposition Future Party in Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu said that the Turkish president’s only goal is to hold on to power in any way, which will push him to search for alternatives to the majority requirement for elections.
Davutoglu added that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is discussing with his ultra-nationalist allies an alternative to the condition of obtaining a majority to remain in power.
He added, “Erdogan will realize with the passage of time that he has become a prisoner of the” 50 + 1 “condition, and I am sure that after a while, the president will have to search for an alternative.
Davutoglu referred to the involvement of 23 parties in Turkish political life within one year, stressing that it is impossible for Erdogan to obtain a majority in the first round of the elections.
Davutoglu indicated that when Erdogan sees the votes of his supporters and supporters from the coalition of the Justice and Development Party and the National Movement drop to 35%, he will place the parliamentary system on his agenda as a condition of political pragmatism.
Opinion polls said that Erdogan, the People’s Alliance candidate, cannot get more than 40% of the vote in the presidential elections, so he seeks to cancel the “50 + 1” condition to win the presidency.
The ruling coalition proposes an alternative to this condition, the adoption of the candidate who obtained the most votes in the first round, in the presidential elections, and the cancellation of the second round according to amendments to the political parties law.
Davutoglu stressed that with the presidential system of government, a strange structure emerged, controlled by one person, that eliminated the principle of separation of powers.
Davutoglu criticized the call of the head of the MHP, Devlet Bahceli, to close the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), indicating that amid talking about legal and economic reforms, it is impossible to talk about closing the parties at all.
Source: Turkish Zaman
