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What will next election bring Turkey?

18 September 2015 10:12 (UTC+04:00)
What will next election bring Turkey?

By Rufiz Hafizoglu

All the major political parties of Turkey that will take part in the parliamentary election are confident of their victory. But as shown in the previous election, there may be a lot of surprises.

The election, which will take place against the background of an unstable political situation in a number of southeastern provinces, carries risks for all the political parties of Turkey.

Not excluded is quite a major change in the percentage of votes political parties will get.

Of course, it is too early to predict the results of the upcoming parliamentary election, but some political circles in Turkey already don’t rule out the fact that political parties will have to work on formation of a coalition government this time as well.

The history of modern Turkey shows that the coalition governments in the country never led to anything good. On Aug.16, the Turkish president also said in an interview with the Turkish TRT TV channel that Turkey has no political culture of coalition building.

President Erdogan said that proceeding from the history of Turkey, as opposed to other countries, the coalitions created in the country led to nothing positive.

This fact proves once again that the political parties will use any chance to get more votes.

Many international political experts believe that the Justice and Development Party will lose a lot of votes in this election. But this is unlikely to happen.

It is not ruled out that the Nationalist Movement Party will lose most of what it gained in the previous election.This is primarily connected to the fact that the National Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli missed a historic opportunity when he refused to form a coalition with the Justice and Development Party.

As a result, the Nationalist Movement Party is currently on the verge of a split.

The appointing of Togrul Turkesh from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) to the post of Turkish Deputy Prime Minister was a strong blow to the nationalist movement.

While Bahceli decided to remain in the opposition, Turkes gave an opportunity to the National Movement Party to be represented in the transitional government.

Along with the lack of far-sighted policy, the Nationalist Movement Party also has another problem related to the personality of Bahceli, who has damaged his reputation. The members of his party also confirm that.

As for the Republican People's Party (CHP), it is not ruled out that it will remain as the main opposition force in Turkey as before. It is obvious that the Republican People's Party will be able to gather over 25 percent of votes as distinct from the previous parliamentary election.

As it may seem strange, as distinct from MHP, CHP is more committed to its political ideology.

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which is involved in so many scandals in Turkey, will undoubtedly loose votes.

And there are many reasons for that, one which is the recent developments in the country’s southeast. As the Turkish authorities say, it is the HDP which should be blamed for the aggravation of situation in the country’s southeast.

HDP, according to the authorities, is carrying out wrong policy and is being supported by Western circles.

Turkey’s southeastern provinces have been for many years the most economically backward regions.

After the launch of the “democratic solution to the Kurdish problem”, quite serious investments have been made in these regions.

The worsening of the situation in Turkey’s southeastern provinces inflicts damage first of all to the local population, mostly comprised of ethnic Kurds, who have voted for HDP.

As for the AKP, the policies pursued after the previous elections and the mistakes of other parties give grounds to say that it will be able to gain at least 45 percent of the vote in the upcoming election.

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