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<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">After the opposition parties deadlocked the 2007 presidential election by boycotting the parliament, the ruling AKP proposed a constitutional reform package. The reform package was first vetoed by president Sezer. Then he applied to the Turkish constitutional court about the reform package, because the president is unable to veto amendments for the second time. The Turkish constituonal court did not find any problems in the packet and 68.95% of the voters supported the constitutional changes.</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> The reforms consisted of: electing the president by popular vote instead of by parliament, reducing the presidential term from seven years to five, allowing the president to stand for re-election for a second term, holding general elections every four years instead of five and reducing the quorum of lawmakers needed for parliamentary decisions from 367 to 184.</span> | <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">After the opposition parties deadlocked the 2007 presidential election by boycotting the parliament, the ruling AKP proposed a constitutional reform package. The reform package was first vetoed by president Sezer. Then he applied to the Turkish constitutional court about the reform package, because the president is unable to veto amendments for the second time. The Turkish constituonal court did not find any problems in the packet and 68.95% of the voters supported the constitutional changes.</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> The reforms consisted of: electing the president by popular vote instead of by parliament, reducing the presidential term from seven years to five, allowing the president to stand for re-election for a second term, holding general elections every four years instead of five and reducing the quorum of lawmakers needed for parliamentary decisions from 367 to 184.</span> | ||
<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> | <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Reforming the Constitution was one of the main pledges of the AKP during the 2007 election campaign. The main opposition party CHP was not interested in altering the Constitution on a big scale, making it impossible to form a </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Commission Constitutional Commission]<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> (</span>''Anayasa Uzlaşma Komisyonu''<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">).</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> The amendments lacked the two-thirds majority needed to instantly become law, but secured 336 votes in the 550 seat parliament – enough to put the proposals to a referendum. The reform package included a number of issues such as the right of individuals to appeal to the highest court, the creation of the </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman ombudsman]<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">'s office, the possibility to negotiate a nationwide labour contract, gender equality, the ability of civilian courts to convict members of the military, the right of civil servants to go on strike, a privacy law, and the structure of the Constitutional Court. The referendum was agreed by a majority of 58%.</span> | ||
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