The country’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu then announced that his AK Party’s negotiations with the MHP ended without an agreement to form a coalition government.
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Some of the guests, speaking to reporters following the luncheon, said they perceived his remark as a signal that he was not planning to give the mandate to CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to form the next government.
Attributing Turkey’s turbulence since the June elections to lawmakers’ inability to form an administration, Mr. Erdogan has redoubled his argument to transform Turkish politics by shifting from a parliamentary government to a U.S.- style executive presidency.
Then Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that early parliamentary election will be held in Turkey.
If however Erdogan uses his right to call the election himself, a so-called “election government” will be formed until the polls, consisting of members from all four parties represented in parliament.
According to Yusuf Sevki Hakyemez, a lecturer at Karadeniz Technical University in the northeastern province of Trabzon and head of the Association of Constitutional Lawyers, once Davutoglu returns the mandate, Erdogan could assign someone new to form a government.
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“I have no time to lose with those who do not know the address of Bestepe”, where his controversial new presidential palace is located, he said.
Erdogan and Parliament Speaker Ismet Yilmaz were due to meet on Wednesday evening to discuss a fresh election.
Parliament could in theory also vote to allow the current cabinet to continue working until a new election, but at least one of the opposition parties, the nationalist MHP, has already said it would vote against such a move.
Snap elections could be on the horizon if an agreement is not reached by August 23, 2015.
The third-placed Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), like the CHP, opposed involvement in an interim government, while the fourth-placed pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is warm to the idea.
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Analysts say the growing prospect of an early election will cause further decrease in the value of the Turkish lira against the dollar in coming days. The MHP and HDP have 80 seats each.
