The polemic of this election: Where are the finances?

With six weeks left to the June 7 elections, survey results show the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) vote is not much higher than 40 percent. What scares the AKP is for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to cross the 10 percent threshold, thus shattering the calculations. Looking at surveys, the feared is about to come true. Of course, if everything runs its natural course? 

The main target for the AKP is to prevent the snatching of the conservative Kurdish votes that may go to the HDP, to scare them by armed clashes and instability. Another target is to attract a portion of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) votes with the rising "separatist threat?"   

Will all of this be adequate enough to open the door to the presidential system President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an needs or, let alone the majority for the presidential system, will it be enough for the AKP to form the government alone? 

It does not seem to be likely so. The referendum threshold for the presidential system is 330 deputies and it is a very far possibility for the AKP to reach this figure. Apart from this, the possibility for the AKP to win the 276 deputies that are needed to form the government is falling rapidly; but there is always hope? Whatever ammunition they have, they are using it? 

Sources of finance 

The Republican People's Party (CHP), which released its election manifesto last week, has apparently become another source of concern for the AKP.  Especially those pledges in the CHP manifesto for the retired, minimum wage earners and those who need social protection have triggered an immediate defense from AKP officials. Defensive responses such as, "Where will you find the finances? There is no such financing" occupied the headlines. 
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