The bill that envisages changes in the Law on the Deputy and the Election Law, including the reduction of the election threshold to seven percent, was accepted in the General Assembly of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The Bill on the Amendment of the Law on Parliamentary Elections and Some Laws, which was prepared with the joint signature of the AK Party and MHP deputies, was approved by the General Assembly of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and became a law.
Election threshold is 7%!
If the total votes received by the alliance exceeds the country threshold, the calculation and distribution of deputies in the electoral districts will be made by taking into account the number of votes received by each party within the alliance in that electoral district. The number of deputies to be issued by each of the political parties forming the alliance is based on the number of votes obtained in each constituency within the alliance. D'Hondt app will be determined by
If the party that has qualified to participate in the elections has not held its district, provincial and grand congresses twice in a row, within the periods stipulated in the Political Parties Law and specified in the party bylaws, it will lose its eligibility to participate in the elections. Having established a group in the Turkish Grand National Assembly will not be one of the sufficient conditions for participating in the elections.
It will be possible for visually impaired voters to vote in accordance with the principle of voting secrecy. In this context, the Supreme Election Board (YSK) will provide templates suitable for ballot papers for visually impaired voters to use.
What is the D'Hondt system, what does it mean?
The D'Hondt system is a proportional representation system designed by the Belgian jurist and mathematician Victor D'Hondt in 1878. In Turkey, the d'Hondt system has been applied in all parliamentary general and by-elections since 1961, with the exception of the 1965 National Assembly general election and the 1966 National Assembly by-election; This is the system still in effect today.
Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Finland, Wales, Croatia, Scotland, Israel, Iceland, Japan, Colombia, Hungary, Macedonia, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Chile, It is the election method applied in the TRNC and Turkey.
How will the Election Board be determined?
The provincial election board will consist of a chairman, two permanent members and two substitute members. The chairman and principal members of the provincial election board, as well as their substitute members, are appointed to the first degree judiciary from among the judges who work in the city center in the last week of January every two years, who have not received reprimand or more severe disciplinary punishment, who have not lost their qualifications for at least the first class and who have not lost their qualifications for being in the first class. court will be determined by the justice commission by drawing names.
The first judge to appear in the name drawing will be determined as the president, the next two judges as the main and the last two judges as substitute members. In case the number of judges participating in the drawing is less than five, the missing permanent and substitute members after the drawing process is made among these judges, starting with the most senior judge.
In the absence of a judge who will participate in the name drawing, the chairman, permanent members and alternate members will be determined starting from the most senior judge. The provincial election board established in this way will serve for a period of two years. In determining the seniority, those who have received reprimand or more severe disciplinary punishment will be considered less senior than others.
If the chairmanship of the provincial election board becomes vacant, the most senior judge among the permanent and substitute members will preside over the provincial election board.
In the districts, the judge appointed by the justice commission of the first instance court, among the judges who have been assigned to at least the first class and have not lost their qualifications for being assigned to the first class, who have not received a reprimand or more severe disciplinary punishment, and who have the same qualifications in the central districts, will be the chairman of the board. .
In the absence of a judge to participate in the nomination, the most senior judge will be the chairman of the board.
A party that has the right to nominate members to the ballot box committee will not be able to nominate another party member as a ballot box committee member without his/her consent.
In the general elections of local administrations to be held in accordance with the Law on Elections of Local Administrations and Neighborhood Headmen and Boards of Elders, an update will be made on the electoral roll 3 months before the start date of the election based on the address of the settlement.
Voters will not be deprived of their right to vote in any way due to the registry arrangement. The last valid address information available in the address registration system of the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs will be taken as the basis for those whose addresses are not visible in the address registration system due to the fact that their addresses have been closed.
In case the transfer request is not accepted as a result of an official investigation and examination, upon objection by the chairman of the district election board, or upon the conclusion that the transfer request is a suspicious attempt, regarding the transfer requests made from one electoral district to another within the suspension period of the mukhtar district hanger lists. Voter registration will continue at the address where it was registered before.
The chairman and members of the provincial election board and the chairman of the district election board will be re-determined according to the changes made within 3 months from the entry into force of the law. The chairman and members determined in this way will complete the term of office of the previous chairman and members.
In parallel with the Presidential Government System, the term "Prime Minister" in the Election Law will be removed from the law.
A Major Change Has Been Made Regarding the Election of the Mayor's Office!
AK Party, CHP, HDP and IYI Party; Separate proposals regarding the removal of the article that regulates the certification of the elected headman within 10 days that he has the eligibility to be elected were combined and discussed.
Speaking on the proposal, AK Party Group Deputy Chairman Muhammet Emin Akbaşoğlu said, “We are withdrawing this article in order to conduct a more comprehensive study on our mukhtars, who are the apple of our eyes.” said. After the proposals were accepted, the said article was removed from the text. Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Celal Adan closed the meeting to meet on Tuesday, April 5, after the adoption of the law proposal.
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