Erdogan’s Party in Turkey Regains Parliamentary Majority - nytimes

ISTANBUL — The Islamist party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday regained its majority in Parliament in a snap election that represented a stunning electoral comeback, and ensured another period of single party government in Turkey and the continued political dominance of Mr. Erdogan.

The margin of victory was not enough to secure Mr. Erdogan’s long-held ambition of establishing an executive presidency, but with his party in firm power the result all but guaranteed that Mr. Erdogan will be able to maintain his position as the country’s pre-eminent political figure while pushing the boundaries of the constitutional limits of the presidency, a largely ceremonial position.

With more than 95 percent of the votes counted, according to state broadcaster TRT, the Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P., captured 49.4 percent of the popular vote, which would give the party a solid majority of 316 seats in Parliament.

The outcome represented a significant victory for Mr. Erdogan, whose party has now won four national elections, beginning in 2002, and a spectacular upset given that most polls had predicted a result similar to June’s national election, which for the first time in more than a decade had denied A.K.P. a parliamentary majority. In that vote, the A.K.P. received about 41 percent of the vote. - Read More at NYT

Erdogan’s Party in Turkey Regains Parliamentary Majority

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