Byzantine tricks in Turkey’s election system
Turkey’s domestic politics are getting stranger with every step the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) take together. Last week, these two partners of the “People’s Coalition” unveiled a proposal to completely change the country’s election system. Not surprisingly, they did not even ask for an outside opinion or for any contribution from legal circles, scholars or opposition parties. It would be fair to call the new system a system for “all-for-me” elections.
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