{"id":19785,"date":"2012-06-16T11:25:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T08:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=19785"},"modified":"2019-04-01T18:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:46:04","slug":"turkeys-top-court-guls-tenure-7-years-could-be-re-elected-19785","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkeys-top-court-guls-tenure-7-years-could-be-re-elected-19785\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey’s top court: G\u00fcl’s tenure 7 years, could be re-elected"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Turkey’s top court: G\u00fcl’s tenure 7 years, could be re-elected.<\/h1>\n

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has said regarding an appeal filed by the main opposition party to annul a law on presidential elections that incumbent President Abdullah G\u00fcl’s tenure is seven years and that he is eligible for re-election.<\/p>\n

The court heard an opposition plea on Friday that sought to bring President G\u00fcl’s presidency to an abrupt end in August. However, the court ended a longtime controversy and said the incumbent president’s tenure end in 2014 and that he can be re-elected.<\/p>\n

From the early days of G\u00fcl’s presidency there were doubts over whether he was subject to a five or seven year term, and the opposition wants the court to annul a law passed in January that said his term should end in 2014.<\/p>\n

Should the court ruled in the opposition’s favour it would have created uncertainty within the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) that Erdo\u011fan dominates.<\/p>\n

Erdo\u011fan has been widely expected to seek the presidency in 2014, but only after introducing a presidential system form of governance through constitutional changes to replace the current parliamentary system headed by a prime minister.<\/p>\n

Erdo\u011fan would have to seek the presidency this year, without the presidential system in place, or face a long delay until he could assume executive powers of a newly-styled presidency.<\/p>\n

Uncertainty about the length of G\u00fcl’s tenure has persisted since he was first elected by parliament on August 28, 2007 to a seven-year term despite fierce opposition from the secularist military over his Islamist pedigree.<\/p>\n

In a referendum in October that year, Turks approved a constitutional reform package including a measure replacing the single seven-year presidential tenure with a renewable five-year term.<\/p>\n

In a bid to clear up uncertainty over how long Gul would spend in office, parliament approved a law in January saying he would serve a single seven-year term. Republican People’s Party (CHP) challenged the law as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Under the 2007 reform package presidents will in future be elected by a popular vote rather than parliament.<\/p>\n

Having overseen a decade of unprecedented prosperity in Turkey, Erdo\u011fan is easily the most popular politician with the country’s new, conservative-minded middle class, and he would almost certainly win any election, as the opposition is too fractured to mount a credible challenge.<\/p>\n

But any move to the presidency could lead to jostling within the ruling AK Party, that would risk bringing factional rivalries to the surface.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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