The 3rd Justice and Development Party Extraordinary Congress took place on 20 and 21 May 2017 in order to elect a party leader and members to the party congress of Turkey's ruling
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(AKP). The party's founder and first leader,
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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, was the only candidate for the post, having left the leadership upon his
election as President in 2014. Having been initially required to sever his political party relations on grounds of impartiality, a
constitutional referendum
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in 2017 turned
Turkey
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into an
executive presidency
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, allowing Erdoğan to return to the AKP and become its leader.
Parliamentary group leader election
Three days after the congress concluded, the parliamentary group of the AKP met to elect a new
parliamentary group leader
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in order to conform to the
executive presidential system. The party's outgoing leader
Binali Yıldırım
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, who vacated the leadership for Erdoğan, was elected unopposed with 300 votes out of 316 voting-elibile members of parliament.
See also
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2017 Turkish constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Turkey on 16 April 2017 on whether to approve 18 proposed amendments to the Turkish constitution that were brought forward by the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement ...
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2019 Turkish presidential election
References
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