The opposition parties have not positively responded to the Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) will to resolve the unsteady process we have been through before it turns into profound chaos. Yesterday's meeting with Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli did not end positively as expected, which indicated that re-election is inevitable.
In retrospect, everybody should fairly evaluate the point that has been reached in the coalition negotiations that have been ongoing for nearly two months. The three opposition parties adopted a stance imposing "insolubility" from the very beginning. The leading political agent insisting on insolubility was the MHP. MHP Chairman Bahçeli listed his four preconditions on the first day, calling for early elections. He displayed an attitude that did not take the national will and societal expectations seriously and even, dare I say, snubbed them.
The party has pursued a stubborn policy with ups and downs. It exerted no effort either for the re-elections or for the coalition. It seemed not to have cared about the country's transformation into a battlefield. Obviously, the MHP made all its calculations on increasing its vote rate or reinforcing its position.
The Republican People's Party (CHP) is not that different from the MHP, although it has created an impression that it approached the coalition more reasonably. If the CHP really gave priority to resolving the hard times Turkey is currently in, it would have adopted a much more reconciliatory method and the country would now have a government.
Had the priority really been Turkey and the difficult period it has been going through, it would not have mattered if the period were four years or two years. The CHP put aside the AK Party Chairman Davutoğlu's suggestion of "a temporary coalition on the subjects that are agreed upon," and replied, "We demand four years to correct your misdeeds."This attitude was an explicit imposition that did not conform to political traditions and norms. The third opposition party, namely the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has also displayed a determined stance in its "insolubility" policy. Only a day after the June 7 general elections, the party announced that they would not be involved in a coalition with the AK Party. On the one hand, it insisted that "the reconciliation process should go on and negotiations should be held in this regard;" but on the other hand, it closed all its doors on the very first day.
The HDP's greatest political mistake might be supporting the "60 percent bloc," which was persistently propped up by the CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. The HDP administration announced that they would provide outside support to a CHP-MHP coalition, calling the possibility of an AK Party-MHP coalition a "government of war." Is there any better term than "double standard" to portray this situation? As can be seen, although the three opposition parties, the MHP, the CHP and the HDP, seem very different, their demeanors were actually not different at all.
All along, they intended to linger on insolubility rather than coming up with a resolution, and all the opposition parties individually imposed this insolubility. Their motivation was to give a hard time to the AK Party rather than exerting sincere efforts to build a coalition. All of them focused on this target. Even the fact that the country has been dragged into a storm of violence was manipulated as a component of this imposition.
With the picture that emerged after the June 7 elections, society has not only seen the challenges of forming a coalition, but also the fact that it could not be furthered with those opposition parties, who cannot even get along with each other. From now on, perception operations will have no influence since the bases of those parties closely witnessed the events.
Now it is the Parliament's turn for duty. Turkey will go for a re-election as soon as possible, and the people will have the last word.
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