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Turkey: The Islamic-conservative resume an absolute majority in Parliament
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds almost revenge. According almost final results, the Party's Justice and Development (AKP) won largely early parliamentary elections Sunday, November 1st in Turkey. He finds an absolute majority in Parliament, lost for the first time in 13 years during the legislative of June 7
This result took courses pollsters who predicted a narrow victory without an absolute majority. The pro-Kurdish party HDP remains narrowly. The AKP has managed to puncture the conservative nationalist and Kurdish constituencies, including reopening the war with the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The campaign took place in a climate of great violence, culminating in the double attack in Ankara, claimed by the Islamic state, which killed 102 people on 10 October.
The AKP took power
According to the results for 99% of ballots counted, the AKP wins 49.3% of the vote and won 316 seats out of 550 in Parliament. Final results will be available by eleven or twelve days. It had 276 seats for the party regain its absolute majority.
The Republican People's Party (CHP, Social -démocrate) is second with 25.4% of the vote (134 seats), a result equal to that of June. The nationalist right (Party of Nationalist Movement, MHP) loses half its seats (41 against 80 in June).
After the parliamentary elections of June 7, the AKP failed to form a coalition government and called early elections. Almost all polls gave him at the end of the campaign between 40 and 43% of voting intentions.
However, the party remains below the 330 seats it would need to vote only a constitutional amendment, wanted by Erdogan that would give him broad powers to the presidency. The latter finds itself in its position before the elections in June, which had focused in particular on the extension of its powers.
The pro-Kurdish party in parliament remains
The HDP (Peoples Democratic Party) won 59 seats against 80 in June. His supporters fear Sunday will not pass the 10% threshold that determines the entrance to the room. Clashes occurred outside the headquarters of HDP between party supporters and police force, as the special envoy of the World on site.
The party had passed that threshold for the first time in June bringing together widely in the Kurdish areas of southeast and within the Turkish left. The AKP has robbed him Sunday part of the Kurdish electorate who are concerned about the new ongoing cycle of violence between the government and rebels of the PKK.
Denouncing "an election neither fair nor just" the co-chairman of the party, Selahattin Demirtas, said he preferred to give up the election rallies after the double suicide bombing in Ankara against peaceful demonstrators, many of them militants HDP. The party received minimal exposure to television during the campaign.
A soothing speeches
In the evening, Erdogan said, in a statement, that the voters had voted "in favor of the unity and integrity" of the country. "Our people made it clear that he preferred the service and projects the controversy, "he said. Earlier, the Prime Minister Ahmet Davatuglu had held a soothing speech in Konya in Central Anatatolie: "Today there are no losers, only winners."
This speech contrasted with the AKP's strategy of tension during the campaign that made fear the overhang of the Syrian civil war in Turkey and return to the dark years of civil war in Kurdistan.
Local Hürriyet newspaper were attacked twice in early September by a mob led by a member of the AKP. Between 8 and 9 September, punitive equipped occurred at night in many cities in Turkey against the offices of the HDP. In the process, hundreds of businesses run by Kurds were ravaged, sometimes burned. Almost 400,000 police and gendarmes were mobilized Sunday to ensure the security of the ballot, particularly in the east.
The Turkish lira and the Stock Exchange of Istanbul welcomed Monday a sharp rise the victory of the party of the Turkish Islamic-conservative president to the legislative. In the early morning, the Turkish franc rose more than 4% and trading around 2.78 pounds to the dollar and 3.06 pounds per euro. In the process, the main index of the Istanbul Stock Exchange (BIST 100) opened its session by a significant 5.4% to 83,735 points.
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