In July 2018, a month after Erdogan won the presidency, Turkey abolished the office of Prime Minister. Changed from parliamentary system to presidential system. Presidential and parliamentary elections are held on the same day every five years.
There are three presidential candidates:
- Rejab Tayyip Erdogan (AK Party)
- Kemal Kılıkdaroğlu (CHP)
- Sinan Ogan (ATA).
No Also, the candidate who gets more than half of the presidential votes on May 14 will be the winner. If no candidate makes it, a second run-off between the top two candidates will take place two weeks later.
2022 Election Changes
A law passed by Parliament in April 2022 lowered the electoral threshold from 10 percent to seven percent.
More importantly, the amendments changed the way seats are distributed among coalition member parties.
In the past, parliamentary seats were allocated based on the total votes polled by the coalition through joint lists of candidates prepared by coalition political parties.
With the changes, each party individually Seats will be allocated according to the votes received.
Main Candidates
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 69
(Justice and Development Party, also known as AK Party) Awami Etihad candidate
Incumbent has been in power for 20 years, nine as president.
2003 Prime Minister from 2014 to 2014 and Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He is seeking a third consecutive presidential term in the May 14 election. are concerned about.
This could be his toughest election as voters are worried about the economy and earthquake damage.
Kamal Kildarouglu, 74
This (CHP), known as the Republican People's Party. National Unity candidate Led the CHP for more than a decade.
Before politics, he was an expert in the Ministry of Finance, then Headed the Social Insurance Institution for most of the 1990s.
He presided over a series of electoral defeats in the CHP but he joined the Six Nations Alliance with the support of Turkey's second largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish HDP. is running as a coalition candidate.
Promises to return Turkey to a "strong parliamentary system".
Sinan Oghan, 55
ATA coalition candidate
Comes from an academic and international financial development background.
Formerly in the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), an ally of Erdogan's AK Party.
Deputy Dean of Azerbaijan State Economic University and representative of Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency, 1994-1998.
Elected as Igdır deputy from MHP in 2011 and expelled from the party in 2015 due to internal opposition.
Declares himself the candidate of Turkish nationalists.
He has been accused of inhumane and far-right policies, especially when it comes to Syrian refugees.
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