![]() ![]() The survey also showed a drop in support for the CHP (17.6%, down nine points) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP, 9.8% percent).īut despite each party’s reduced support, this survey should look rather familiar. Granted, we are at that stage when the next election is years away and the last one a distant memory, but such large voter apathy in a country where election day turnouts average between 80 and 90% is remarkable.Īmong respondents who said they definitely would vote, Metropoll found AK Party support had slumped to 39.1%, a full ten percentage points below its landslide 2011 election result. Here’s a prediction that won’t astonish anyone: the CHP will not win Turkey’s next general election in two years’ time.Ī victory for the main opposition party is a monumentally difficult thing to achieve not just because of the party’s current leadership woes, but because the governing AK Party has a solid hold on power.Ī Metropoll survey at the end of December, which showed a near-uniform swing in support away from the three main parties, reported a full 25 per cent of voters saying they are undecided on who to support, or would spoil their ballot or not vote at all. To win the next election, Turkey’s opposition party has a mountain to climb
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