AKP wins, but falls short of 'Super Majority'

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13/06/2011

As expected, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan won another five-year term, with nearly half of the votes Sunday.
By Alakbar Raufoglu for Southeast European Times -- 13/06/11
By the time the polls closed, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) had won 49.9% of the vote or 326 of the 550 seats in parliament. Although the AKP increased its vote percentage by nearly 4% over the 2007 election, due to parliamentary arithmetic the AKP lost 15 seats, leaving it short of the 330-seat "super majority" which would have enabled the party to vote on constitutional changes and send it to a referendum for a final decision.....more...
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