Erdogan's AKP wins surprise majority in Turkish election, but not enough seats to change constitutio
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34694420[/url]
[quote]Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won a critical parliamentary election, regaining the majority it lost in June.
With almost all ballots counted, state-run Anadolu Agency said AKP had won 49.4% of the vote, with the main opposition CHP on 25.4%.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called the result was a "victory for our democracy and our people".
The pro-Kurdish HDP crossed the 10% threshold needed to claim seats.
The nationalist MHP will also take seats in Ankara.
Polls had indicated the AKP would received only between 40-43% of the vote, in line with how it fared in June when it lost its majority for the first time in 13 years.
Attempts to form a coalition government after the June election failed.[/quote]
They needed 330 seats to win the ability to call a referendum on changing the constitution, and if they'd won like 376 or something then they could have changed it directly by themselves. President Erdogan had the AKP to win 330 seats so they could transform Turkey into a presidential republic by transferring many of parliament's powers to his office. Nevertheless the AKP dun good and mainly got fucked over by the HDP just managing to remain above the high 10% threshold to remain in parliament.
So it's a defeat for the various opposition parties in Turkey but not as catastrophic for them as it would have been if the AKP had won the power to change the constitution - some were calling this election the 'last exit before dictatorship'
dats my party
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Justice_and_Development_Party.png[/img]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1CfXj_ihpc[/media]
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