Turkish citizens elect their president separately from the parliament, using a two-round majority. Here’s a look at the salient features of the electoral system
Türkiye’s electoral politics has come a long way since the founding of the republic in 1923. Political excitement is once again surging in the country as presidential and parliamentary polls have been scheduled on May 14.
For instance, two parties willing to work together would not nominate a joint candidate but rather guide their voters to support a candidate from either of the two sides with a higher chance of winning the election. This kind of alliance would later divide parliamentary seats among themselves. While none of them was able to pass the 10 percent threshold on their own, their alliance helped the three parties to receive 17 percent votes with 62 seats under the Welfare Party’s name. This tactic was regarded as a significant achievement of Turkish conservative groups in the 1990s. One of the provisions of the amendment has also reduced the minimum threshold of votes that a political party needs to enter the parliament.
The minimum threshold was introduced in the 1980s to discourage a motley of small political groups from entering the parliament as that hampered the lawmaking process due to constant bickering.
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