PM Erdogan announces democratization package

PM Erdogan announces democratization package

Erdogan has unveiled a number of reforms on issues regarding political rights, such as election threshold, party organization, and propaganda in non-Turkish languages, SIA reports citing Anadolu Agency.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the highly-anticipated 'democratization package' at a press conference held in capital Ankara.

Erdogan mentioned the following legal amendments on enhancing political rights:

Erdogan said the government would propose three options to be discussed in the coming weeks for the election threshold:

a) Maintaining the current threshold of 10%

b) Lowering the threshold to 5% while implementing single-member district constituency system in groups of five.

c) Removing the threshold altogether and fully implementing the single-member district system.

Erdogan also said the current threshold on parties for receiving state aid would be lowered to 3% from the current 7%.

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