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Turkey Heads Into a Critical Election Runoff
A return to a parliamentary democracy system—the opposition’s most important electoral promise—is highly unlikely if Erdogan remains in power.
- Marc Pierini
- Francesco Siccardi
- Carnegie Europe
This would be bad news for Turkey’s Western allies.
After a dynamic and unfair campaign, the interim results of Turkey’s dual election send the two main presidential contenders to a second round and give a safe majority to the incumbent parliamentary alliance.
This means that whoever is elected on May 28 will run the country under the 2017 constitution, which…