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56 pct of Turks favor presidential system, recent survey finds

by Daily Sabah

ANKARA Apr 20, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
A young citizen casting his vote in the June 7 elections in 2015. A referendum on a new constitution and change to a presidential system is expected later in 2016.
A young citizen casting his vote in the June 7 elections in 2015. A referendum on a new constitution and change to a presidential system is expected later in 2016.
by Daily Sabah Apr 20, 2016 12:00 am

Nearly 60 pct of the public is in favor of a presidential system and would vote for it in a possible referendum, a recent survey conducted by an opposition research company found

Fifty-six percent of the Turkish public favors a presidential system rather than the current parliamentary system, a recent survey conducted by the Gezici Research Company, a company that strongly opposes the government, found.

Amid debates over a new constitution and a possible presidential system, the company's recent survey came as a surprise for the opposing section of the public. In the survey conducted on March 26-27, 56 percent said they would vote in favor of a presidential system. A referendum is expected later this year on a new constitution and a presidential system. The Ankara-based Objective Research Center (ORC) had also revealed that 56.1 percent of participants interviewed supported the presidential system in early February.


"The head of state, elected by the people, must have more than a symbolic role," President Erdoğan said late January in his address to more than 250 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that had gathered to launch efforts in establishing a new constitution and showing support for a presidential system. Former Presidents Turgut Özal and Süleyman Demirel, former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan and former Deputy Prime Minister Alparslan Türkeş had also stressed the need for a presidential system in Turkey.

The company, a widely debated polling company known for its dubious findings against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), also found that the AK Party would receive 56.2 percent of the vote in the case of a possible election.

Revealing the survey results during a television program on the leftist Halk TV channel, the research company president Murat Gezici said that the AK Party had received 56.2 percent support by the survey participants. The survey further researched public opinion on the presidential system as well as the establishment of a new constitution in Turkey.

The survey also found that the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) received 25.8 percent of the support by the participants while the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were left under the election threshold. The survey's findings revealed that the pro-PKK HDP had only received 7.3 percent while the MHP had received 8.9 percent.


The company president Murat Gezici stated that "two referendum ballots will be established in November where one will be for the new Constitution and the other for the presidential system as there is a public strongly supportive of the presidential system."Responding to the question whether to support the presidential system or not, 55.2 percent of the survey participants have voted in favor while only 35.5 percent voted against it. Additionally, the Ankara-based Objective Research Center (ORC) had conducted a survey in early March which revealed a significant increase in support for the presidential system at 57 percent.
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