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3rd Justice and Development Party Extraordinary Congress

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Justice and Development Party leadership election, 2017

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Registered1,470 delegates
 
Candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Party AK Party
Delegate vote 1,414
Percentage 100%

Leader before election

Binali Yıldırım
AK Party

Elected Leader

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AK Party

The 3rd Justice and Development Party Extraordinary Congress took place on 20 and 21 May 2017 in order to elect a party leader and members to the party congress of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party).[1] The party's founder and first leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was the only candidate for the post, having left the leadership upon his election as President in 2014.[2] Having been initially required to sever his political party relations on grounds of impartiality, a constitutional referendum in 2017 turned Turkey into an executive presidency, allowing Erdoğan to return to the AK Party and become its leader.[3]

Parliamentary group leader election

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Three days after the congress concluded, the parliamentary group of the AKP met to elect a new parliamentary group leader in order to conform to the executive presidential system. The party's outgoing leader Binali Yıldırım, who vacated the leadership for Erdoğan, was elected unopposed with 300 votes out of 316 voting-elibile members of parliament.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "AK Parti kongresi 20-21 Mayıs'ta yapılacak".
  2. ^ "Erdoğan: 2017'de Kongre Yapılabilir, AK Parti'nin Başına Geçeceğim". 25 April 2017.
  3. ^ "AKP'de olağanüstü kongreye doğru".
  4. ^ İsmail Çakır (24 May 2017). "Başbakan Binali Yıldırım 300 oyla yeniden Grup Başkanı oldu". Haber Diyarı (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2022.