Turkey’s existing parliamentary system has been in the waiting room to be replaced by the presidential system since the last year’s presidential election, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, reiterating his demand for ‘400 lawmakers’ in the June 7 general election to make this change possible.
Hundreds of thousands of main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) members have flocked to the polling stations to vote to elect their candidates for the June 7 parliamentary elections, making the the sole party in putting primaries in place.