Bad news for the 'New Party' Özgür Özel is set to establish: 90 deputies are not enough...
It is expected that Özgür Özel, who announced he would leave the CHP to form a new party, will form a strong group in Parliament with approximately 90 deputies. However, according to current legal regulations, the requirement to receive Treasury aid is not the number of deputies, but receiving at least 3 percent of the vote in the last general election.
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Following the announcement by elected CHP Chairman Özgür Özel regarding the establishment of a new party, the question of whether the party's potential number of seats in Parliament would be sufficient for Treasury aid has become a subject of debate.
While it is stated that 90 deputies from the CHP are expected to join the party Özel will establish, according to current legislation, the number of deputies alone is not considered sufficient to receive state aid.
ELECTION REQUIREMENT FOR AID
As reported by Merve Kılıç from Cumhuriyet, in accordance with the additional Article 1 of the Law on Political Parties No. 2820, the Treasury aid to be provided to political parties is determined based on the percentage of votes they received in the last parliamentary general election.
For this reason, for a newly established party to benefit from state aid, it must have participated in the last general election and received at least 3 percent of the vote. Unless this condition is met, the party exceeding 90 deputies in Parliament does not grant the right to Treasury aid.
Within the framework of current regulations, whether Özel's new party can receive Treasury aid will depend on it participating in elections and surpassing the 3 percent threshold.
State support for political parties in Turkey has been shaped by various regulations since 1965. While the Law on Political Parties No. 2820 came into effect in 1983, the principle that political parties would be provided with "adequate and fair financial support" was added to Article 68 of the Constitution in 1995. With the amendment made in 2014, the threshold for qualifying for Treasury aid was lowered from 7 percent to 3 percent.