The June 2015 legislative election in Turkey |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Government, University of Essex, UK;2. School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, USA;1. School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies, University of East Anglia, Earlham Road, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom;2. Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom;3. School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | The Republic of Turkey held its first presidential election, which employed a universal suffrage based on popular vote, on 10 August 2014. Unlike most of the countries organizing separate ballots for electing the president and the MPs, Turkey did not hold both elections on the same day. Instead, the subsequent parliamentary election would be held ten months later, i.e. on 7 June 2015. The reason behind this is not only due to the differences of the term lengths between parliament and the President (which are four and five years respectively), but also the peculiarity in the inclusion of a “presidential element” (a president elected by popular vote) into a political regime which must still be seen as a parliamentary system. This oddness arose from the political crisis in 2007. |
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