Alwaght- Following a series of futile coalition negotiations between Turkey's rolling party, AKP, and rival political parties, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has handed back the mandate to form interim power-sharing government to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as less than a week remains to the expiration of the Aug. 23 deadline to form a new government.
The AKP party lost its longstanding majority in Turkey's general election on June 7, 2015. Afterwards, Erdogan assigned Davutoglu the task of finding a junior coalition partner, but after 40-day failed talks Turkish Prime Minister, during an 85-minute-long meeting late Aug. 18, returned the mandate to the President.
With speculation growing over whether Erdoğan would give a new mandate to form a government to the leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), which received the second highest number of votes in the June 7 election, in line with Turkey’s political customs, a contentious debate has also erupted on the probable requirement of forming of an interim government, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
Based on Turkish constitution, President could dissolve the cabinet and call for the formation of an interim “election government” if no government is formed by the deadline. That would mean power being shared between all four parties before a fresh election in the fall.
