Current Turkish president Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed his desire to propose a change to Turkey’s presidential system that he himself pushed for through the 2017 constitutional referendum, noting that the “50+1” voting system that requires a candidate to get more than 50% of the vote in order to win an election should be abolished, replacing it with a “faster” one in which the winner is simply the candidate who receives the most support, which would eliminate the need to go to a second round.
“A change in the ’50+1′ requirement would be appropriate. Transitioning to a presidential system in which the candidate with the majority (of votes) is elected would make presidential elections quicker, avoiding complications… The current 50+1 obligation is leading political parties down the wrong paths,” said Erdoğan, who also reiterated his desire to change Turkey’s current constitution, which he stressed was drafted after the 1980 coup and still contains a coup mentality. “The presence of this coup mentality in our current constitution is the most worrying thing for us. Moreover, the world has changed significantly from 1980 to today,” the Turkish president explained to a group of journalists.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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