Erdoğan dismisses opposition's calls for a snap election

* Photo: Halil Sağırkaya - Ankara / Anadolu Agency (AA)

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President and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan talked about the opposition parties' pressing demands for a snap general election in Turkey at the AKP Extended Provincial Organization Chairs meeting today (November 23).

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President Erdoğan said that the election would be held in June 2023, as scheduled. "Why is this opposition wearing itself out so much," asked Erdoğan, arguing that "they know they cannot get ahead of the achievements of the AKP and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)."

According to Erdoğan, AKP is "on the top of the list of exceptional examples among world democracies which can remain in power for such a long time." Erdoğan expressed his hopes that the "AKP would win the elections in 2023 and break another record" in that regard.

"Still talking about snap elections over and over again... No, snap election will not happen. June 2023," said Erdoğan, briefly adding:

"They are not aware of whom they are walking together with. It is long gone, this is history now. Holding an election every 15-20 months is what primitive tribes do. We are a political party which embodies the practices of the modern structure and world now."

According to the President, "none of the developments that have occured in Turkey in the past eight years is based on political, social and economic cases that have arisen in their own natural space."

"There is a fiction, a scenario, a trap behind all of them," said Erdoğan about these developments since 2013, adding: "The fact that the ones managing this process cannot succeed thanks to God's help and our nation's foresight does not mean that they have given up on it."

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(AS/SD)