The AKP obtained in Sunday’s elections a result similar to the 34.3 percent of the 2022 parliamentary elections, reason why it may maintain the coalition with the Nationalist Action (MHP) Party.

The radical party Yeniden Refah barely obtained three percent of the votes at the national level, less than the seven required to enter the National Assembly, although the good results obtained in the Anatolia region will allow it to send five deputies to the Assembly.

The APK must have 268 seats out of 600 under its control, below the 285 it had up to now, but it would reach a majority of 324 seats with those of the MHP and Yeniden Refah, the capital television commented.

Although presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s Republican People’s Party (CHP) won 167 seats, it will remain in the opposition, even with the support of IYI’s 44 seats and the Kurdish left’s 62 seats.

Analysts predict that the result of the legislative elections will influence the second round of the presidential elections on the 28th, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will face Kilicdaroglu after both failed to achieve above 50 percent of the votes.

Erdogan stands for maintaining advantageous and mutually beneficial ties with Russia, seeking a negotiated solution to the conflict in Ukraine and positioning itself as a regional power, with an independent policy, even within NATO.

Kilicdaroglu promises a closer rapprochement with the European Union, although the latter has been prolonging the process of the accession of Türkiye’s into the bloc for over two decades, and a recomposition of relations with NATO, especially with the United States, among other issues. The candidate also promises much more pragmatic relations with Russia, one of his main trading partners and the main issuer of tourists to Turkey, the press highlighted.

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