Snap polls bill submitted to Turkish parliament

The draft bill will be debated in the parliament’s constitutional committee on April 20
Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:46

The bill on holding early elections on June 24 was submitted to the office of Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman on April 18.

The bill bears the signature of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli.

The draft bill will be debated in the parliament’s constitutional committee on April 20. The general assembly is expected to debate the bill on April 20 and 21.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan earlier on April 18 announced plans to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24, over a year before they had initially been scheduled for November 2019.

The announcement came after Bahçeli, whose party is set to enter elections in an alliance with the Justice and Development Party (AKP), called for early elections.