According to unofficial results, four political parties, including the Justice and Development (AK) Party, pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Republican Peoples Party (CHP), and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) had surpassed the 10-percent election limit needed to obtain any seats in the parliament, Sadi Guven told reporters in the capital Ankara late on Sunday.
"According to unofficial results, AK Party, CHP, MHP, and HDP have surpassed the 10-percent electionthreshold," he said, adding,"The official results will be announced in 11 or 12 days". The turnout was 86.47 percent, he added.
According to the unofficial results, Turkey's AKP won its fourth consecutive general electionSunday but failed to gain the majority needed to form a single-party government.
With 99.86 percent of ballots counted, AKP secured 40.79 percent of the vote, giving the party 258 seats in the Grand National Assembly -- 18 short of a simple majority.
The second-placed CHPsecured 25.07 percent of the vote to take 132 seats while the MHPgained 16.38 percent to gain 81 seats. And the pro-Kurdish HDP won 12.98 percent of the vote to take 79 seats, markingthe first time it will ever enter the parliament as a party.
Disappointed Erdogan
President Recep Tayyip ErdogansAKPparty has gained much less than the current 327 and the 330 parliament seats required forcalling a referendum on changing the constitution.
Erdogan, who was elected president in August 2014 after over 11 years of serving as prime minister, was confident before the electionthat he could transform Turkey into a presidential republic.
To achieve this, the ruling party needed to gain 367 seats (two-thirds of the parliament), to easily push for constitutional changes to increase the powers of the president, without popular vote.
Erdogan has got his first defeat in his political lifePresident Erdogan is number one loser and the second one is Turkeys prime minister, Huseyin Bagci, a professor in Middle East University in Ankara, told Press TV lateonSunday.
With 99.86 percent of ballots counted, AKP secured 40.79 percent of the vote, giving the party 258 seats in the Grand National Assembly -- 18 short of a simple majority.
The second-placed CHPsecured 25.07 percent of the vote to take 132 seats while the MHPgained 16.38 percent to gain 81 seats. And the pro-Kurdish HDP won 12.98 percent of the vote to take 79 seats, markingthe first time it will ever enter the parliament as a party.
Disappointed Erdogan
President Recep Tayyip ErdogansAKPparty has gained much less than the current 327 and the 330 parliament seats required forcalling a referendum on changing the constitution.
Erdogan, who was elected president in August 2014 after over 11 years of serving as prime minister, was confident before the electionthat he could transform Turkey into a presidential republic.
To achieve this, the ruling party needed to gain 367 seats (two-thirds of the parliament), to easily push for constitutional changes to increase the powers of the president, without popular vote.
Erdogan has got his first defeat in his political lifePresident Erdogan is number one loser and the second one is Turkeys prime minister, Huseyin Bagci, a professor in Middle East University in Ankara, told Press TV lateonSunday.
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Selahattin Demirta? (L) and Figen Yukseldag (R), co-chairs of the HDP, hold a press conference in Istanbul on June 7, 2015. (AFP)[/caption]He stressed that they would not form a coalition government with the Justice and Development Party as they had promised throughout the campaign.
We will not form a coalition with the AKP, we stand behind our words. We will be in parliament as a strong opposition, Demirta? vowed.
Supporters of the HDP took to the streets to celebrate the pro-Kurdish partys first entry into the parliament. The Kurds had earlierrunonly as independents and their parties had been locked out of the parliament.
The peace talks between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), aimed at ending decades-long conflict, have stalled in recent months.
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HDP supporters celebrate the results of the legislative election in Diyarbakir on June 7, 2015. (AFP)[/caption]Any hope for AKP?
Oktay Vural, the deputy chairman of Turkey's MHP, said on Sunday that it was too early for him to say whether it would consider forming a coalition government with the AK Party.
The MHP has long been seen as the most likely potential partner for the ruling party.
By Press TV
