(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu should immediately return a mandate to form a government if a meeting with Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli fails to produce a coalition, the Republican People's Party (CHP) has said.
"DavutoÄŸlu is now playing for time. Today, at their meeting with the MHP, they may perhaps arrive at a conclusion; perhaps not € we wouldn't know. But if there is no result, then he should immediately return the mandate," Levent Gök, the CHP's deputy parliamentary group chair, said Aug. 17, just hours before a scheduled meeting between DavutoÄŸlu and Bahçeli.
"From now on, each passing minute, hour and step by Davutoğlu is meant to be a seizure of authority," Gök said, underlining that such a move would not be sustainable according to Turkey's democratic customs and rules.
"Mr. Davutoğlu needs to immediately return the mandate and not to a [pawn] in the hands of the president. Davutoğlu is going through an important test. The mandate should be given to our [party's] chair," Gök said.
President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan gave the mandate to form a new government to DavutoÄŸlu in his capacity as the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which received the highest number of votes in the June 7 election, yet fell short of a majority.
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