The Demirtas accusing Erdogan of seeking to establish in the country a "constitutional dictatorship
The leader of the Party of the Republic of Peoples (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of trying to establish a "constitutional dictatorship" by pressing for a revision of the Constitution and the transformation of the political system to a presidential by transferring the major implementing powers to the prime minister to the president, while argued that the Turkish president fostered a climate of fear to ensure the landslide victory of his party in the elections on November 1st.
In an interview Sunday Reuters news agency the Demirtas, co-chairman of the HDP, that expresses much of the Kurdish minority, expressed the view that the government will ask for a referendum on the revision of the Constitution until 2016 autumn.
In the elections of November 1 islamosyntiritiko the Justice and Development Party (AKP) - founded by Erdogan - regained its absolute majority in parliament, garnering 49.4% rate and electing 317 deputies out of a total 550 seats. It is therefore 13 seats by the qualified majority required to call such a referendum.
The Demirtas said that the HDP will oppose the plans of Erdogan after leaving the throne of the Prime Minister in 2014 for conversion of the Turkish political system to a presidential and transfer more powers to the presidency.
The leader of the Party of the Republic of Peoples (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of trying to establish a "constitutional dictatorship" by pressing for a revision of the Constitution and the transformation of the political system to a presidential by transferring the major implementing powers to the prime minister to the president, while argued that the Turkish president fostered a climate of fear to ensure the landslide victory of his party in the elections on November 1st.
In an interview Sunday Reuters news agency the Demirtas, co-chairman of the HDP, that expresses much of the Kurdish minority, expressed the view that the government will ask for a referendum on the revision of the Constitution until 2016 autumn.
In the elections of November 1 islamosyntiritiko the Justice and Development Party (AKP) - founded by Erdogan - regained its absolute majority in parliament, garnering 49.4% rate and electing 317 deputies out of a total 550 seats. It is therefore 13 seats by the qualified majority required to call such a referendum.
The Demirtas said that the HDP will oppose the plans of Erdogan after leaving the throne of the Prime Minister in 2014 for conversion of the Turkish political system to a presidential and transfer more powers to the presidency.
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