Are Referendum Results Guarantee for The Next General Election?
The outcome boosts Erdogan’s hopes of a third successive poll victory in a parliamentary election set for July 2011. According to Reuters, a deep recession last year reduced AK’s election hopes, but a robust recovery has restored voters’ faith judging by the outcome of Sunday’s plebiscite. “The comfortable margin of the “yes” vote is market positive as it indicates that the AKP has good prospects of winning a third tern at the general elections due by July 2011,” Wolfango Piccoli, a London-based analyst at Eurasia Group consultancy, said in a note. While The Daily Telegraph comments so: “The result, and particularly his margin of victory, will be a big boost to his campaign for re-election next year, and a major disappointment to the secular opposition parties, who campaigned strongly against the package”, Ibon Villelabeitia looks at the issue from different perspective: “the margin of victory may tempt Erdogan to call early elections although he has repeatedly rejected the idea”. Acco
