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MHP Deputy Says Denies Voicing Support For AK Party Minority Gov't

04.08.2015 19:06

ALİ ASLAN KILIÇA senior deputy from the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) denied on Tuesday that he previously said his party would support a minority government to be formed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on the condition that it agrees to an early general election in November.

ALİ ASLAN KILIÇ
A senior deputy from the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) denied on Tuesday that he previously said his party would support a minority government to be formed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on the condition that it agrees to an early general election in November.
MHP Deputy Chairman Semih Yalçın said that remarks to that effect published by Reuters were "distorted" and "taken out of context."
"We will not support an ordinary minority government by the AK Party, but if the minority government means an election government, we would have to see the election date," Yalçın was quoted by Reuters as saying in an interview in the capital Ankara. "We can support an AK Party minority government on the condition that it holds an election in November."
However, in his statement on Tuesday, Yalçın said that “it would be unthinkable for our party to support a minority government.”
The AK Party has been in talks to try to find a junior coalition partner after losing its majority in the June 7 general election for the first time since coming to power more than a decade ago. It has another three weeks to agree a working coalition, try to govern alone, or face a new election.
Commenting on the Reuters report about Yalçın, former MHP parliamentary group chairman Yusuf Halaçoğlu told Today's Zaman that MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli had already said in previous statements that he will not support the AK Party. “He [Bahçeli] said, ‘We will not create an AK Party government when the public already refused to do so',” said Halaçoğlu.
Discussing Yalçın's alleged remarks, Halaçoğlu said that they represent Yalçın's personal views and cannot be attributed to the whole party.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) parliamentary group deputy chairman Engin Altay has strongly criticized the MHP for its support for a minority government to be led by the AK Party. Saying that it was already clear from the attitudes that the MHP had adopted since the June 7 election that it would support the AK Party, Altay said that the MHP has revealed where it stands with its recent move.
According to the Reuters interview, Yalçın also reiterated that the MHP would not consider entering a full coalition with the AK Party unless it met conditions including the formal end to the peace process with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) launched by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan three years ago. "Just a few comments suggesting it's dead are not adequate. It should be declared by the prime minister," he said.
Erdoğan has described the Kurdish peace process as "impossible to continue" after Turkish jets hit PKK positions in northern Iraq in recent weeks in response to a series of killings of members of the Turkish security forces. However, both the government and PKK have stopped short of declaring a definitive end to peace negotiations.
Erdoğan has meanwhile made little secret of his preference for single-party rule. Opponents say he wants another election to enable the AK Party to win enough of a majority to change the Constitution and hand him greater executive powers.
The AK Party held a final day of exploratory coalition talks with the CHP on Monday but there were few signs of concrete progress. CHP spokesman Haluk Koç said his party had done its best but the next step was up to acting Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.
Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç described the talks as "positive" but said the ball was now in CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's court. "If the day come when Kılıçdaroğlu says 'sorry, but we will not form a government [with you],' then we will alter our course to the MHP. I believe we can form a government [with the MHP] if we can reach a common understanding," Arınç told reporters. (Cihan/Today’s Zaman)



 
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