Turkey’s Central Election Commission has still not officially announced the results of the parliamentary election, which was held on May 14 alongside the first round of the presidential election. According to the Bianet agency, it was expected that the electoral commission would announce the results of both votes last Friday, and the constituent session of the new parliament would be held within three days.
According to the Duvar website, some opposition MPs claim that the delay in announcing the results is due to the refusal of several far-right Kurdish Islamist MPs to take the oath with the traditional text. This includes, among other things, the commitment to comply with the laws of the “democratic and secular republic” and the principles and reforms of its founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
“These gentlemen don’t want to read the oath. Which sentence in it bothers them? Atatürk’s principles, the rule of law, secularism, the republic or democracy?” remarked MP Veli Agbaba, who is the vice-chairman of the social-democratic People’s Republican Party (CHP), founded in 1923 by Turkey’s first President Atatürk. According to Agbaba, they are also bothered by the fact that members of parliament are women.
Agbaba criticized the four new MPs for the Kurdish Islamist party HÜDA-PAR, which, according to the Duvar website, has direct ties to the Kurdish militant group Hezbollah. These four deputies entered parliament on the candidate list of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
According to the Duvar server, Erdogan’s government uses this Kurdish radical party to reduce the influence of the second major opposition formation in the Kurdish areas, the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), which the current government is trying to ban through the constitutional court.
In the parliamentary elections, the People’s Alliance coalition of President Erdogan won, which according to unofficial results will occupy 323 seats in the 600-member parliament. The opposition National Alliance finished second, winning 212 mandates and whose leader Kemal Kiliçdaroglu will face Erdogan in the second round of the presidential election on Sunday.
Source: Tyden.cz by www.tyden.cz.
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