Turkey's nationalists reject coalition with ruling party
Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has expressed unwillingness to join a coalition government with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Davutoglu announced on Tuesday following talks with MHP leader Devlet Bahceli that the nationalist party prefers to remain in the opposition, as analysts speculate that a coalition with the Republican People’s Party (CHP) seems more likely as the secular party did not flatly rejecte an alliance with the ruling government after holding talks with the prime minister on Monday.
Davutoglu is also scheduled to hold talks with officials of the nation’s pro-Kurdish party on Wednesday, although he has ruled out the likelihood of forming a coalition alliance with it.
The AKP lost its parliamentary majority in the June 7 general elections for the first time since rising to power in 2002. The vote also thwarted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s scheme to turn the country into a presidential republic.
Meanwhile, Erdogan had earlier warned political parties to keep his presidential status out of their coalition-building efforts, suggesting that he would block any deal that would scrap his national mega projects.
Moreover, Turkish opposition parties have accused Erdogan of overstepping his presidential powers, insisting that they would not tolerate his interference in any coalition government.
Davutoglu was assigned a mandate of forming a new government on July 9. He has 45 days from that date to build a coalition and if he fails to do so, new elections will likely be called by Erdogan as threatened.
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