Jan. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, indicated this Thursday that the Government would be considering bringing forward the parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for June 18, without giving further details in this regard.
Erdogan stated during a meeting of the government Justice and Development Party (AKP) that these elections are “important”. “We will reconsider the date due to the conditions of the season,” he said, according to the Turkish state news agency, Anatolia.
According to information from the Turkish newspaper ‘Hurriyet’, the AKP is considering advancing the elections because university exams are scheduled on those dates, with April 30 and May 14 as other possibilities.
Erdogan gave a glimpse in December of his intention to ask for popular support with a view to a final five-year presidential term in the 2023 general elections before retiring from political life.
The president was prime minister between 2003 and 2014 and, since then, he has been the president of the nation. A constitutional amendment in 2017 changed the system to an executive presidency model, and Erdogan was elected president in 2018.
