Erdogan To Seek 4th Term As AKP Leader

ERDOGAN TO SEEK 4TH TERM AS AKP LEADER

PanARMENIAN.Net
July 16, 2012 – 12:10 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan signaled
his intention to seek a fourth term as leader of the ruling Justice
and Development Party (AKP), while also paving the way to more terms
for MPs from the party who have already served three terms, Hurriyet
Daily News reported.

“Everyone has the chance to become a deputy again after taking a
one-term break. This arrangement will find its place at the grand
congress in Ankara on September 30,” Erdoðan said at an AKP provincial
meeting in the central Anatolian city of Eskiþehir, signaling a
change to the party statute that currently keeps deputies who have
been elected to office three times from running for Parliament a
fourth time.

“Likewise, we will run for the general chairmanship of the party for
the fourth and last time in accordance with the promise we have given,”
Erdoðan said.

“The general chair of the party is elected via secret vote by the
grand congress. However, the same person can be elected as general
chair for four terms at most, except for the founding chairmanship,”
Article 75 of the AKP Statute says.

The statute also reads: “Mayors and deputies who run and are elected
from AK Party [AKP] lists can be nominated as candidates for three
terms at most.”

From: Baghdasarian