(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Shentop has said there is no
legal obstacle in front of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's
nomination for next year's presidential elections, dismissing the
opposition's arguments that it will be Erdogan's third term
although the constitution limits the presidential service to two
terms, reports citing .
“There is no uncertainty there. [The opposing views] are voiced
by some legal experts who don't know the constitutional amendments
[of 2017] well,” Shentop told the reporters at a reception held on
the occasion of the commencement of the new Legislative Year late
on Oct. 1.
Some opposition members argue that President Erdogan cannot run
for the presidential elections in 2023 as he already served two
terms between 2014 and 2018 and 2018 and 2023. The constitution
limits the presidential service to two terms, they stress.
Dismissing this interpretation, Shentop recalled that Erdogan
was elected as the president for the first time in 2014 according
to the provisions of the former constitution. Türkiye replaced the
parliamentary system with the presidential system through a
referendum in 2017 and the provisions for the election of the
president has entirely changed, Shentop stressed, adding President
Erdogan's election as the president in 2018 was his first term
under the new constitution.
“There is not the slightest uncertainty over his presidential
candidacy,” he said. Türkiye will go to parliamentary and
presidential elections in June 2023 but there are views that the
polls can take place a few months before.
“There are two ways to do so: Either a presidential decision or
the votes of three-fifths of the Parliament,” Shentop said. Under
normal conditions, the elections will be held on June 18, 2023, but
many argue that the polls should be held in May as all the weekends
in June are devoted to university entrance exams or other
nation-wide educational exams.
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