A Turkish opposition lawmaker has asked parliament why 500 million voting envelopes had been ordered for the next election when there are only 55 million voters.

Republican People’s Party (CHP) parliamentarian Haluk Pekşen said the order to the state provisioning office would “arouse great suspicions” as the rules said only 130 million were required; two for each voter, plus 18 percent extra in case of misallocation or mishap, secularist newspaper Sözcü said.

“We are saying that there will be cheating at the next elections,” Pekşen told parliament during a public spending debate.

“With the latest law, envelopes that are not stamped by the ballot box committee are also to be accepted. This development completely vindicates us. What will you do with 500 million electoral envelopes?”

At the June 2015 election there were also more envelopes printed than the rules stated were necessary, Sözcü said, but only in the order of millions rather than hundreds of millions.

Turkey faces local, parliamentary and presidential elections next year.