Baku, Azerbaijan, June 8
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has instructed Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who heads the Justice and Development Party, to form the government, Anadolu agency said June 8.
The Justice and Development Party gained most of the votes in the parliamentary election.
The government must be formed within 45 days.
On Sunday, June 7, Turkey held parliamentary election, which involved 20 political parties. Some 53,765,231 people cast their votes in the election.
The voting results in Turkey's June 7 parliamentary election are as follows: the ruling Justice and Development Party garnered 40.9 percent of the vote, the Republican People's Party (CHP) - 25 percent, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) - 16.3 percent, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) - 13.1 percent.
Other political parties as a whole gathered 4.7 percent of the vote.
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