Erdogan hinted that he would not participate in the elections after 2023

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this turkey president tip Recep Tayyip Erdogan, He will be a candidate for the last time in the June 2023 elections. It sparked a debate about the legality of the president’s candidacy in Turkey, Turkish media reported this Sunday.

President Erdoğan said: “In 2023, we will start to build Turkey’s Century with the support we ask from the nation for the last time on our behalf, and we will deliver this blessed flag to the youth.” In his speech in the Cumhuriyet newspaper Samsun.

The Turkish opposition interprets this statement as follows: erdogan Doesn’t plan to run for president again in the 2028 electionAlthough he doubts that the Constitution even allows him to do so in 2023.

“Tayyip Erdoğan announces that he is a candidate for the last time in the 2023 elections. But Article 101 of the Constitution and the Presidential Election Law say… In 2023 it is already impossible sir“, social democrat deputy Ali Mahir Basarir wrote on the social network Twitter.

Erdogan was prime minister from 2003 to 2014 and was elected president under the current 2007 constitution.

In 2017, Erdogan supported another constitutional reformIt was approved by a thin majority in a referendum that removed the prime minister figure and transferred executive powers to the president.

A year later, he won the presidential elections in the new system.it also only allows two commands.

Erdogan, who was elected president in 2014 and 2018 according to the opposition, He has already exhausted his two shifts and will not be able to appear in June 2023.

The ruling AKP party, on the other hand, comments that shifts should be counted from 2018, as position qualifications have changed significantly and it is a different system.

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