Erdogan’s snap Turkey election gamble pays off: ruling AK regains absolute majority

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The ruling neo-Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recovered the absolute majority in Turkey’s snap parliamentary election that it lost in June, but with not enough seats to push through constitutional reforms to enable him to become an executive president.

The AKP, in power for the last 13 years, won 316 of the 550 seats, up from 258 in June (18 short of a simple majority). It needed to gain 367 seats to unilaterally impose the presidential system that the autocratic Erdoğan so fervently desires.

Having won back his majority, Erdoğan must now focus on reuniting Turkish society http://www.europeansources.info/record/having-won-back-his-majority-erdogan-must-now-focus-on-reuniting-turkish-society/

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