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<p>A surprise set of results has given Turkey’s main opposition party a major boost and enhanced the prospects of democratic renewal</p><p>Less than a year ago, Turkey’s main opposition parties were in a slough of despond. Defying their predictions, the country’s authoritarian leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, comfortably <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/28/polls-close-in-second-round-of-the-turkish-presidential-election#:~:text=Recep%20Tayyip%20Erdo%C4%9Fan%20has%20extended,stark%20and%20persistent%20political%20polarisation.">won</a> a third term in presidential elections held last spring. At the same time, his Justice and Development party (AKP) emerged more powerful from a parliamentary poll, despite the economy tanking and dissatisfaction at the government’s response to the worst <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/2023-turkish-earthquake-then-and-now">earthquake</a> for decades. Years of clientelism, culture wars and overwhelming media dominance appeared to have rendered Mr Erdoğan’s strongman politics all but unassailable at national level.</p><p>Small wonder then, that a spectacular and unanticipated <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/31/turkey-local-elections-istanbul-mayor-ekrem-imamoglu-recep-tayyip-erdogan">turnaround</a> at Sunday’s local elections prompted wild celebrations into the early hours. In Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, the incumbent mayor, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/01/who-is-ekrem-imamoglu-istanbul-mayor-recep-tayyip-erdogan-reign-president-ak-party#:~:text=The%20opposition's%20victory%2C%20pushing%20aside,of%20his%20desire%20to%20bring">Ekrem Imamoğlu</a>, trounced Mr Erdoğan’s candidate. Mr Imamoğlu’s Republican People’s party (CHP) also pulled off a clean sweep of other major cities, winning by a landslide in the capital, Ankara, and easily in Izmir. More suprisingly, the CHP managed to chalk up some victories in the conservative towns and villages that make up Mr Erdoğan’s electoral heartland in Anatolia, and near the Black Sea. Gains in those regions for the Islamic far‑right New Welfare party (YRP), at the AKP’s expense, added to the president’s misery.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/the-guardian-view-on-erdogan-bad-night-at-the-polls-local-elections-packing-a-national-punch">Continue reading...</a>
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--- !ruby/object:Feedjira::Parser::RSSEntry published: 2024-04-01 17:25:13.000000000 Z carlessian_info: news_filer_version: 2 newspaper: US general21 macro_region: USA image: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a14a742381166d1cc5bdad798d9ed16a5857d674/0_0_5424_3254/master/5424.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f1c8fbb35d0a72c8ee50bb99c64e0c6d entry_id: !ruby/object:Feedjira::Parser::GloballyUniqueIdentifier guid: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/the-guardian-view-on-erdogan-bad-night-at-the-polls-local-elections-packing-a-national-punch title: 'The Guardian view on Erdoğan’s bad night at the polls: local elections packing a national punch | Editorial' categories: - Turkey - World news - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan summary: <p>A surprise set of results has given Turkey’s main opposition party a major boost and enhanced the prospects of democratic renewal</p><p>Less than a year ago, Turkey’s main opposition parties were in a slough of despond. Defying their predictions, the country’s authoritarian leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, comfortably <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/28/polls-close-in-second-round-of-the-turkish-presidential-election#:~:text=Recep%20Tayyip%20Erdo%C4%9Fan%20has%20extended,stark%20and%20persistent%20political%20polarisation.">won</a> a third term in presidential elections held last spring. At the same time, his Justice and Development party (AKP) emerged more powerful from a parliamentary poll, despite the economy tanking and dissatisfaction at the government’s response to the worst <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/2023-turkish-earthquake-then-and-now">earthquake</a> for decades. Years of clientelism, culture wars and overwhelming media dominance appeared to have rendered Mr Erdoğan’s strongman politics all but unassailable at national level.</p><p>Small wonder then, that a spectacular and unanticipated <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/31/turkey-local-elections-istanbul-mayor-ekrem-imamoglu-recep-tayyip-erdogan">turnaround</a> at Sunday’s local elections prompted wild celebrations into the early hours. In Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, the incumbent mayor, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/01/who-is-ekrem-imamoglu-istanbul-mayor-recep-tayyip-erdogan-reign-president-ak-party#:~:text=The%20opposition's%20victory%2C%20pushing%20aside,of%20his%20desire%20to%20bring">Ekrem Imamoğlu</a>, trounced Mr Erdoğan’s candidate. Mr Imamoğlu’s Republican People’s party (CHP) also pulled off a clean sweep of other major cities, winning by a landslide in the capital, Ankara, and easily in Izmir. More suprisingly, the CHP managed to chalk up some victories in the conservative towns and villages that make up Mr Erdoğan’s electoral heartland in Anatolia, and near the Black Sea. Gains in those regions for the Islamic far‑right New Welfare party (YRP), at the AKP’s expense, added to the president’s misery.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/the-guardian-view-on-erdogan-bad-night-at-the-polls-local-elections-packing-a-national-punch">Continue reading...</a> rss_fields: - title - url - summary - author - categories - published - entry_id - image url: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/the-guardian-view-on-erdogan-bad-night-at-the-polls-local-elections-packing-a-national-punch author: Editorial
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