Turkish elections; Why did Erdogan fail?

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the leader of the Justice Party And Development, last night for the first time in the last 22 years, gave an election speech on the balcony of his party building, and this time, not as a winner but as a big loser, he clearly announced that he received the message of the people. .

He, who was clearly tired and listless, despite using all the government facilities, not only failed to take back Ankara and Istanbul from the opposition, but also lost other cities and the difference between the winners It was so high that even before the counting of votes ended, the opponents gave a speech and thanked their supporters.

In the April 12 elections in Turkey, the People’s Republic Party finally became the first party of Turkey after 4 decades and pushed Erdogan’s party to the second step. For the first time in the last twenty years, the lowest participation rate of the Turkish people was recorded in the elections and 78 percent of eligible voters went to the polls. This is despite the fact that the people of this country have repeatedly shown participation above 85%.

Why did Erdogan’s party fail?
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in May of last year, became the president of Turkey for the third time and was able to defeat Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in the second round of the election with a result of 52% to 48%. /p>

On the same night of announcing the victory, he had openly said that taking back the keys to Istanbul and Ankara is one of the vital goals of the ruling party. However, this victory was not achieved and now Erdogan is a politician whose party controls both the government and the majority of seats in the parliament. But it has lost a huge part of the municipalities and associations of the cities and as a result, it has faced challenges in the wide field of services and urban development and many commercial issues, trade unions and issues related to the management of cities.

Ugur Dondar, one of the famous and long-time Turkish journalists, announced last night that the victory of the People’s Republic Party despite all the pressures of the ruling party is completely similar to a miracle and a democratic epic.

Dondar believes that two factors An important role in Erdogan’s defeat has been played: the first is the economic crisis and the second is the disregard of Erdogan and his party for the basics of democracy and citizen rights.

Ismail Saimaz, one of the other Turkish analysts, also said: “The People’s Republic Party is a unique and historic achievement. has achieved and imposed such a heavy defeat on the ruling party that has never been seen before. Now the opposition can safely talk about the necessity of early elections”. Fatih Potregal, a well-known anti-Erdogan journalist who has gone to court several times for criticizing the government, said in his explanation: “Turkey’s political environment has been waiting for this big change for years. The people of Turkey are extremely hungry and poor, and Erdogan’s repeated slogans do not satisfy them. They are now pinning their hopes on the People’s Republic Party”. In an article analyzing the state of the opposition in the March 31 election, the British Economist magazine announced that in addition to the ruling party, Mrs. Aksner’s party is also a big loser, and now this party has practically disintegrated.

Economist analyst He believes that the election results were heavily influenced by the economic crisis and considering the current conditions, it is not unlikely that Imamoglu will run for the presidency in the future and get votes from the people.

Reuters news agency based in England wrote that Akram Imamoglu was ahead by 10% in the race to be elected as the mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, but the People’s Republic Party spent its main power on the victory of Ankara’s mayor Mansour Yavas.

Agence France-Presse After Akram Imamoglu’s victory was confirmed, he announced that the people of Istanbul had celebrated a great victory by waving Turkish flags and lighting torches, which is of strategic importance to them.

The French Le Monde newspaper also reported. that the victory of the People’s Republic Party in the three important and sensitive cities of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir was an important political event.

The English Guardian newspaper also highlighted this part of Erdogan’s speech, which he said: “We are in the cities where the nation We have chosen someone else, we will restore trust.

The BBC Turkish section also considered this part of Erdogan’s speech important: “This is not an end for us, but a turning point. We will respect our supporters and voters.

The Greek newspaper Naftempuriki noted that Erdogan personally carried the burden of the election campaign and that the party was unable to do so.

Also, the American Wall Street Journal announced that the People’s Republic Party won the largest share of the total vote in Turkey for the first time since the 1970s, and despite Erdogan’s efforts, Murad Kurum’s campaign failed.

The first resignationA
In the early hours of the announcement of the results of the vote counting and the heavy defeat of the Good Party, one of the deputies of Ms. Meral Aksner announced that he will not be a candidate for the leadership of his party in the upcoming congress, and this means his official resignation. Turkish political analysts believe that Meral Aksner played an important role in the defeat of the opposition in the previous elections. This time, he actually put them in danger by separating from the opposition coalition, but the fire of this action went into his own eyes and achieved very little results.

Some political analysts believe that now, the party The national movement led by the Baghçeli government is also in a weak position, and in the current situation, there is no reason for the friendship between him and Erdogan to continue in the presidential coalition. to lead correctly and even though he had strongly maneuvered on the necessity of deporting Syrian refugees, but no one paid attention to this idea and the total votes of his party across Turkey reached a meager 1%.

In the end It should be said that in addition to Erdoğan and Aksner, Ali Babajan, the leader of the Leash and Democracy Party, Ahmet Davutoglu, the leader of the Future Party, and Temel Karameloglu, the leader of the Saadat Party, were among the other losers of the election, but the emergence of Fateh Arbakan, the leader of the Refaah Party, as a capable leader who In a short period of time, the new Altasis party has reached the rank of the third party, it is an important and significant political event.

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