‘AKP to Suffer Greatest Loss in Turkey’s 2019 Local Elections’
ANKARA (Dispatches) – Turkey’s leading Justice and Development Party (AKP) will continue to lose voters to ally far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in the upcoming 2019 local elections, polls says.
President Recept Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP has lost its ability to connect with the general public, the Eurasia Public Opinion Research Centre (AKAM) Chairman Kemal Özkiraz told independent news site Diken.
Turkey’s local elections will be held on March 31, 2019 throughout the 81 provinces of the country. The leading AKP, which formed an alliance with the MHP in the June parliamentary elections, won 18 out of 30 metropolitan municipalities in the 2014 local elections with 60 percent of the votes, while the MHP won merely three metropolitan municipalities, receiving 10 percent of the votes.
President Recept Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP has lost its ability to connect with the general public, the Eurasia Public Opinion Research Centre (AKAM) Chairman Kemal Özkiraz told independent news site Diken.
Turkey’s local elections will be held on March 31, 2019 throughout the 81 provinces of the country. The leading AKP, which formed an alliance with the MHP in the June parliamentary elections, won 18 out of 30 metropolitan municipalities in the 2014 local elections with 60 percent of the votes, while the MHP won merely three metropolitan municipalities, receiving 10 percent of the votes.