People's Alliance (Turkey)

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Cumhur İttifakı
People's Alliance
founding February 2018
Place of foundation Ankara
Alignment Conservatism , neo-Omanism , nationalism
Parliament seats
341/600
Share of votes of the People's Alliance in the parliamentary elections in Turkey 2018
MHP and AKP flags over the streets.

The People's Alliance ( Cumhur İttifakı in Turkish ) is an electoral alliance for the 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections that has existed since February 2018 between the ruling, Islamic-conservative Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) and the far -right Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (MHP), who had been opposition until then . The Islamist - nationalist Büyük Birlik Partisi (BBP) can use the AKP's electoral lists to nominate candidates, but is not formally a member.

background

Since 2016, a joint approach by the AKP and the MHP has been observed at parliamentary level, which only made the constitutional referendum possible in 2017 . At the end of 2017, the nationalist MHP chairman Devlet Bahçeli spoke about an electoral alliance with the AKP and suggested the name that is now being used. This electoral alliance stipulates that the MHP does not nominate its own presidential candidate and that the proposed MPs stand on a joint electoral list . In addition, a possible alliance for some districts was not categorically rejected in the local elections .

While the Party of Happiness (SP) refused to join the alliance, the Great Unity Party (BBP) wants to be part of it. However, this is rejected by the party of the Nationalist Movement, from which the BBP once split. In consideration of this, the AKP announced that possible candidates for the BBP for a seat of parliament would be introduced via the AKP's electoral lists.

Member parties

Political party Share of the vote Seats Alignment
Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi 42.6%
291/600
Islamic - conservative
Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi 11.1%
49/600
right-wing extremist
Buyuk Birlik Partisi Via the AKP electoral list
1/600
Islamic - nationalist

Supporting parties

Political party Share of the vote Seats Alignment
Anavatan Partisi -
0/600
liberal- conservative
Hür Dava Partisi 0.3%
0/600
pan-islamism , pro-kurdish
AS Parti -
0/600
Pro-military

On May 14, the Motherland Party (ANAP) announced that it would support the People's Alliance on the basis of the political ideology of its founder, Turgut Özal . ANAP supported "no" in the 2017 constitutional referendum , in contrast to all other parties within the alliance who had said "yes".

Election results

Parliamentary elections

Election year be right proportion of MPs
2018 26,626,445 53.62%
345/600

Presidential election

Election year be right proportion of candidate
2018 26.325.188 52.59% Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Local elections

Election year be right proportion of Metropolitan communities Provincial boroughs
2019 23,978,506 51.64%
16/30
34/51

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AKP, MHP to press button for 'People's Alliance'. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
  2. Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan AKP-MHP ittifakının ismini açıkladı: Cumhur İttifakı . ( com.tr [accessed April 3, 2018]).
  3. Sputnik: Bahçeli, 'seçim ittifakı' formülünü çizerek anlattı. Retrieved April 6, 2018 (Turkish).
  4. 'Cumhur İttifakı' teklifinin detayları belli oldu. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .
  5. milliyet.com.tr Türkiye'nin lider haber sitesi: Yerel seçim için 'gönül ittifakı' . In: MİLLİYET HABER - TÜRKİYE'NİN HABER SİTESİ . ( com.tr [accessed April 6, 2018]).
  6. BBP seçime AKP listelerinden girecek. Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
  7. Son Dakika: Anavatan Partisi'nden Cumhur İttifakı'na destek kararı . In: NTV . May 17, 2018 ( com.tr [accessed May 27, 2018]).
  8. Bir partiden daha Cumhur İttifakı'na destek. May 28, 2018, accessed on February 6, 2019 (tr-TR).
  9. Mynet: AS Parti'den Cumhur İttifakı'na destek! Retrieved February 6, 2019 (Turkish).