Erdogan Ally Set to Benefit From Planned Turkey Election Change
Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Leader Devlet Bahceli speaks during his party's meeting in Ankara, Turkey, on Feb. 15.
Photographer: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images
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Turkey’s government wants to lower the share of the vote a party needs to win seats in parliament, a move that appears intended to aid President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s key ally in next year’s likely tightly-fought election.
Erdogan’s AK Party and its smaller partner, the Nationalist Movement Party or MHP, plan to submit legislation to lawmakers to reduce the threshold to 7% of the national vote from the current 10%, according two officials familiar with the matter.