(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is expected to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday following Turkey's general election.
The ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party has claimed 258 seats in Turkey's 25th parliamentary elections Sunday, 18 short of a simple majority, according to unofficial results.
Davutoglu will start a busy consultation process in AK Party headquarters after the elections, prime ministry sources said.
The Turkish PM has met the AK Party's Central Executive Board members and ministerial cabinet officials on Monday to evaluate the results.
Davutoglu will meet with the members of his AK Party's Central Executive Board and Central Decision and Administration Board individually on Tuesday.
With 99.99 percent of the ballots counted, according to Anadolu Agency's "secim.aa.com.tr" website's latest figures, the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) passed the 10 percent threshold with 13.12 percent of the vote to take 80 seats € the first time it has entered parliament as a party.
The Republican People's Party (CHP) claimed 132 seats, and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) 80 in the Grand National Assembly.
The turnout was 86.63 percent.
Turkey's AK Party won its fourth consecutive general election but could not reach the necessary majority (276 seats) needed to form a government. The party, which came to power in 2002 before winning elections in 2007 and 2011, secured 40.86 percent of the vote.
Second-place CHP had 24.96 percent while the MHP received 16.29 percent of the vote.
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