PM Davutoğlu leaves post
ANKARA (DİHA) - Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and his cabinet resigned on June 9, a routine post-election procedure in Turkish politics.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan approved the resignations, which came after the AKP lost its majority in the June 7 general election, and requested that the cabinet continue its duties until a new government is formed. Davutoğlu resigned as prime minister in a cabinet meeting with President Erdoğan attending.
In Ankara the talk is of possible coalition scenarios, after the AKP lost enough seats to deny it the ability to form a one-party government. The AKP lost his majority after the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) passed the 10 percent threshold and caused the AKP to drop to less than 276 seats in parliament.
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