The proposal to amend the Election Law, prepared by the AK Party and the MHP, submitted to the Presidency of the Assembly. According to the proposal, the election threshold will be reduced from 10 percent to 7 percent, while parties will be able to pass the country's general threshold with an alliance. Thus, it means that the era of alliances, which is inevitably being implemented, will continue from now on. However, whenever the change to be made in the Election Law came to the agenda, the first thing that came to mind was the lowering of the election threshold. However, it seems that lowering the electoral threshold of the ruling partner parties did not work for them. For this reason, they found it sufficient to increase it to 7 percent.
Of course, there is a proposal at the moment and it can be lowered while the issue is being discussed in the Assembly. However, inevitably for this to happen, the AK Party and MHP must either both or one of them say yes to lowering the threshold.
At this point, it is useful to say that the 10 percent election threshold is from the coup period. In this regard, the abolition of the threshold or its lowering are frequently on the agenda, and although it is emphasized that the threshold should be lifted or reduced to 3 percent in order to fully reflect the will of the people in the Parliament, the 7 percent election threshold determined to have been reduced is often discussed. It would not be wrong to say that it is an arrangement made. Because the 10% electoral threshold prevents the full reflection of the will of the people in the Parliament, and there will be a similar problem at 7 percent. The seriousness of the matter will be better understood if it is remembered that a party that received 36 percent of the votes in this country achieved a majority of over 60 percent in the Parliament.
It is possible to say that the putschists have their own calculations when making such an arrangement. However, it is also known that their accounts do not always hold as they wish. For this reason, before each election, the governments began to know how to make changes in the election laws for themselves. That is why the announced Election Law amendment proposal is being evaluated from this perspective by the opposition. In short, the AK Party-MHP alliance, which is thought to lose its power in the upcoming elections, has brought a change to the Parliament based on the calculations of being able to get out of the elections with the least loss. Such an image emerges from the perspective of the opposition parties.
In fact, in order for the will of the people to be fully reflected in the Parliament, the electoral threshold must be removed.
However, then, too, a fragmented parliamentary arithmetic emerged, and since we did not have the habit of reaching consensus among the parties, such a system was inevitably introduced so that the periods in which the government could not be formed for a long time would not happen again, and the reflection of the will of the people was pushed aside for the sake of stability.
In the past, it has been seen that such a high electoral threshold is not democratic and it has come to the fore to lower or remove the threshold. However, despite everything they have said in the past in the election law amendment proposal prepared by the AK Party and MHP, it is understood that they consider it sufficient to reduce the threshold to 7 percent. However, it should be noted that this change is not aimed at ensuring that the will of the nation is fully reflected in the Parliament, and it seems that it prioritizes the interests of the alliance parties.