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Erdogan decides to announce early elections

2023-01-23 17:10:45Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Erdogan decides to announce early elections
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey will take place in mid-May. This is what President Erdogan decided. But can his power in Turkey be endangered?

"I will use my authority (...) to set the date of the elections on May 14, 2023," announced Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But Erdogan said that these "are not premature elections". President Erdogan is also the leader of the conservative Islamic ruling party AKP.

In order not to disrupt school exam dates, he agreed on this election schedule with the junior ultra-nationalist coalition partner MHP. The elections in Turkey should have been held on June 18 of this year.

Solidarity of the opposition

The election is seen as a major test for Erdogan, who has been in power for 20 years. He was elected prime minister in 2003, while he has been president of the state since 2014. According to polls, his re-election is not certain. The 68-year-old is currently under tremendous domestic political pressure, especially due to the economic crisis and the extremely high rate of inflation in the country.

The opposition, which has almost entirely formed a joint electoral alliance, hopes that it will manage to gain power and remove Erdogan after 20 years of government. She announced that she will announce her joint presidential candidate in February.

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu (52) from the social-democratic CHP party, the largest opposition party, is considered a possible candidate for the presidential elections. In December, however, Imamoglu was sentenced to more than two years in prison and banned from politics. But the judgment is not yet legally binding. A considerable number of political observers assume that CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu will support the opposition in the political race against Erdogan./ DW


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