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Poll shows Turkey's ruling AKP may lose majority in elections

Xinhua, May 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) may lose its parliamentary majority in the June 7 elections, a poll cited by local media on Friday revealed.

Support for the AKP has dropped to 40.5 percent compared to 49.8 percent in the 2011 elections, the poll conducted by the research company Konda showed.

The poll, which has not been made public by Konda, also showed the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) would gain 11.5 percent of the vote, above the 10 percent threshold needed to enter the parliament as a party.

It also predicted less than 29 percent of the vote for the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and less than 15 percent for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

The poll indicates that the prospect of the AKP being unable to form a single-party government unnerved financial markets. Endit