Wed 22 December 2021:
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the opposition’s calls to hold snap elections in Turkey and said the country will hold elections as scheduled in June 2023, Anadolu reports.
Erdogan on Wednesday stressed that holding early elections was out of the question after opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu asked for the snap election due to the currency crisis being experienced by the country.
Local media reports that Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairperson Devlet Bahceli is also in favour of holding elections in 2023.
Erdogan has been working to find solutions to solve Turkey’s economic crisis. On Monday, he unveiled anti-dolarisation measures and increased the minimum wage by a massive 50 per cent from 2022 as part of steps to tackle the issue.
Last week, the lira was down more than 11 per cent at around 18.4 to the dollar.
Turkey held a snap election in 2018; when the country shifted to a new system that gives the president increased executive powers.
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