Two days after the parliamentary elections in Turkey it’s still unclear what the new government will be. One thing is for sure – Islamist conservative Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lost the absolute majority and now needs a coalition partner, Thomas Bormann writes in an article published in the German newspaper Tagesschau.

In these elections it was possible to vote for or against Erdogan’s ambitions. The ruling party wanted to receive 2/3 of the votes to gain enough authority for changing the Constitution and expanding the powers of the president. But the Turkish voters voted against all these plans. Erdigan’s supporters earned 41 per cent of the votes, not getting even half of the seats in the parliament, the author writes.

But the leader of the party, PM Ahmet Davutoglu does not wish to speak about the loss and says that the Justice and Development Party remains the strongest in Turkey.

However, the article reads, the party needs a coalition partner for the government. Potential candidate out of the three opposition parties may become the Nationalist Movement Party.

As to the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, they are the only winning force in these elections. This force, which Erdogan characterized as the party of Armenians and gays, was able to pass the 10 per cent election threshold. And they achieved this success by refusing to cooperate with Erdogan’s system. Therefore, formation of coalition with the Justice and Development Party is fraught with great danger for the Kurdish party.  

As a result of the parliamentary elections held in Turkey on June 7, AKP earned 40.8, CHP 24.96, MHP 16.3 and the Kurdish HDP 13.1 per cent votes.