'Advanced Islamist Democracy' 101 - If AKP doesn’t win June election, it will hold another election.

'Advanced Islamist Democracy' 101 - If AKP doesn't win June election, it will hold another election. (Bugun).

Turkish President Erdoğan’s adviser Binali Yıldırım said that if the ruling AK Party doesn't win a majority in Parliament in the upcoming election on June 7, it will simply establish a minority government and hold another general election within a year. If AKP doesn’t win upcoming election, it will hold another election

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy and former Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication Binali Yıldırım, currently working as adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has announced that Turkey will simply hold another election if the AK Party doesn't win a majority in the upcoming elections on June 7.

“I don’t see much chance of a coalition,” said Yıldırım speaking to reporters on Friday, “Theoretically, even if such an outcome were to happen, the AK Party would just establish a minority government and another election would be held within a year.”

He added that such a scenario was unlikely as Turkish citizens would probably continue voting for the AK Party for the sake of stability and the continuation of trust.

Latest opinion polls show that Turks are increasingly getting disillusioned with the ruling party.

The April opinion poll released by Gezici Research last week shows that only 38.1 percent of respondents said they’d vote for the AK Party if they voted right now, a drop from their 39.1 percent in Gezici’s February opinion poll and a huge projected decline from the party’s 49.83 percent victory in the last general elections in 2011.

Meanwhile the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has climbed to 28.5 percent from its 25.98 percent in the 2011 election while the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) to 18 percent from its 13.01 percent. The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) is projected to reach 11 percent, putting it over the 10 percent vote threshold needed for it to enter the assembly. The current HDP lawmakers had run as independents in the 2011 general elections, receiving about 6.57 percent of the vote.

According to simulations of parliamentary seat distribution based on these numbers, between such a drop in AK Party votes and the HDP crossing the election threshold, the number of seats won by the ruling party would be significantly lower than the 276 deputies needed to form a single-party government in Turkey’s 550-seat parliament. Hmmmm.........Dictatorship 101.