ANKARA — With Turkey approaching its second election in five months, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan once again emerged from his gargantuan palace to campaign for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Although the constitution designates the presidency as a nonpartisan office, that didn’t stop Erdoğan from pushing during June’s elections for the super-majority needed to amend the constitution to centralize power in the presidency. To Erdoğan’s dismay, his efforts backfired. Not only did the AKP lose nine percentage points at the ballot box, but it failed to win a simple majority for the first time in its 13-year history.
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Source: European Voice
