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Polls open in Turkey’s 2nd general elections this year
Polls open in Turkey’s 2nd general elections this year – YouTube
Voting is underway in Turkey’s second parliamentary elections in five months as the ruling Justice and Development Party seeks to retain the majority it lost in June after 13 years.
More than 54-million people have registered to vote in the snap elections. The AK Party is hoping for enough parliamentary seats to form a single-party government. The party now holds 40 percent of the seats, with the rest distributed across the Republican People’s Party, the Nationalist Movement and the People’s Democratic Party. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is the AK Party’s co-founder, called the early elections after coalition talks collapsed. He hopes the party can get enough support to push through constitutional changes that increase the presidential powers. However, opinion polls point to a result similar to the June’s outcome, amid a resurgence of the Kurdish conflict and a deadly bombing that rocked Ankara last month.
Turkey’s ruling AK Party hopes to get enough votes to form single-party govt.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/11/polls-open-in-turkeys-2nd-general.html
