Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 28
By Orkhan Kuluzade - Trend:
A possible hidden pre-electoral coalition between the Republican People's Party and the Democratic People's Party in Turkey will not affect the results of the re-run parliamentary election to be held in the country November 1, 2015, Huseyin Altinalan, the expert on Turkey, the head of Istanbul's bureau of Anadolu news agency, said in an exclusive interview with Trend.
He has not ruled out the possibility that these two parties will form the hidden coalition in the re-run election as during the previous one.
He said that these parties have the same goal, namely, to prevent the Justice and Development Party of Turkey from forming the government alone.
"The open coalition between the Republican People's Party and the Democratic People's Party is impossible till the end of the re-run parliamentary election," he said.
He also has not ruled out the possibility that if the Justice and Development Party fails to gain the required number of votes following the re-run parliamentary election, the Republican People's Party and the Democratic People's Party can begin negotiations to form a coalition government.
"Before the previous parliamentary election held in Turkey, the Republican People's Party and the Democratic People's Party repeatedly stated that if they gain the necessary number of votes, they will be able to form a coalition government," he said. "But it turned out that following this election, the Justice and Development Party had to make a choice to form a coalition government."
In an interview with the Turkish press, Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of the Turkish Democratic People's Party, said that his party could agree on the pre-election coalition with the Republicans.
Turkey will hold the re-run parliamentary election on November 1, 2015.
Some 75,288,955 million people will participate in the re-run parliamentary election in Turkey. Some 29 political parties will participate in the re-run parliamentary election.
A final meeting was held between Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and the leader of the oppositional Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Turkey on Aug. 13.
During the talks, the parties failed to agree on creating a coalition government.
Afterwards, Davutoglu said that his country would again hold a parliamentary election.
Turkey held a parliamentary election June 7, which involved 20 political parties.
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) won the election, but lost the parliamentary majority and couldn't form a government alone for the first time since 2002. The Turkish president instructed the AKP leader and current Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form the cabinet of ministers July 9. The prime minister held talks with leaders of the three parliamentary parties, but couldn't reach an agreement.
Edited by CN
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