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If democracy in Turkey to be strengthened, election threshold must be dropped, says CHP chair



Turkey’s main opposition party CHP’s chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu met with the representatives of civil society institutions of the Blacksea region as part of his party’s campaign against the proposed new constitution of the ruling party AKP.

Emphasizing the ‘dangers that the proposal poses to the country as a whole’, Kılıçdaroğlu said ‘there is no other presidential system in the world like the one AKP has proposed to be adapted in Turkey.’

Kılıçdaroğlu also stated officials campaigning in support of the proposed system have been trying to ‘create fear among the public by claiming there will be great chaos if a ‘no’ vote prevails in the referendum,’ adding: “If you have really come up with a good constitutional amendment for the sake of the country’s future, why don’t you explain it? Why are the governors and the mayors are pressuring people for a ‘yes’? ...Just explain to the public what exactly this constitutional amendment means...”

Underlining that proposed system assigns the executive head excessive powers, Kılıçdaroğlu also pointed out the extent of polarization among the people of Turkey with regards to this proposal.

Kılıçdaroğlu also commented on Erdoğan and government officials’ repatitive assertions over their plans for ‘reintroduction of death penalty’, which his party refuses, by saying: “They talk about death penalty to deceive people… Why didn’t you (AKP) add it as the 19th article in your amendments then?”

In reference to one of the 18 articles of the proposed amendments where the age of eligibility for being elected as a parliamentarian is dropped from 25 to 18, Kılıçdaroğlu said: “While your and my children will be serving for the army (at the age of 18), the children of the misters in Ankara will be parliamentarians and be except from serving in military.”

‘If there is really a will to strengthen the parliament for the sake of democracy, the election threshold should be dropped to 1%’, said Kılıçdaroğlu.

Source: http://www.birgun.net/haber-detay/kilicdaroglu-hayir-demek-kadar-buyuk-bir-gurur-yoktur-150414.html



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