Erdogan’s party: ‘We are talking to 40 AKP MPs’, says Davutoglu’s associate

Turkey’s Future Party (GP) has set fire to Turkey’s party scene, with its vice-president saying there is a background to Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP).

The “bomb” of Selcuk Ozdag revealed that the party of former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is talking to about 40 deputies of the ruling party.

Lawmakers who have spoken to the Party of the Future know that the AKP is badly run and that they can not win the elections scheduled for June next year, Ozdag said in an interview with the YenicaÄŸ newspaper published on Wednesday.

The GP also spoke with about 20 former AKP lawmakers, Ozdag said. He said he, party leader Davutoglu and other officials had taken part in the talks. The AKP won 286 of the 600 seats in parliament in the 2018 general elections.

The Party of the Future has the support of 1.1% of the Turkish electorate, according to a poll of 1,514 people in 28 of the 81 provinces of Turkey conducted by Metropoll in December. Ozdag said polls by the party itself showed that the GP had the support of more than 10% of the electorate.

The Metropoll poll showed that the AKP and its political ally, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), led by Gray Wolves leader Devlet Bahceli, would fail to win the required combination of votes to maintain their parliamentary majority in the election. be carried out immediately. Public support for Erdogan’s AKP was 32.3%, compared to 27.4% for the Republican People’s Party (CHP), 14.2% for the Good Party (IP) and 5.3% for the MHP.

Davutoglu, a former prime minister in the AKP government, founded the Party of the Future in December 2019. He enjoys the support of 18.4% of the electorate, the Metropoll poll showed, without this being transformed into a vote intention.

In addition, Recent polls show that in case of direct elections, Erdogan, in a one-on-one contest for the presidency of the country, would lose to the mayor of Ankara, Mansour Giavas, and to the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, but also to Meral Aksener.

Petros Kranias

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Source From: Capital

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