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Montenegro's State Prosecutor's Office says two opposition MPs, Andrija Mandic and Slaven Radunovic, have been charged with the crime of "incitement to violent change of the constitutional order" by encouraging protesters to break into the parliament in Podgorica on October 24.

The day after the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) scored its surprising election victory, it has reopened the issue of a new constitution based on a shift from the current parliamentary system to a presidential system.

Sevil Erku?sevil.erkus@hurriyet.com.trThe Justice and Development Party (AKP) was successful at turning the mistakes of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to its advantage in the recent elections, according to the head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's (PACE) election monitoring delegation.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) scored an unexpected success in the Nov. 1, making a strong comeback after losing nine percentage points in the June 7 general election. In what came as a surprising victory even to its own deputies, the AKP managed to mobilize voters both inside Turkey and abroad. 

Creating a brand-new constitution will be one of the foremost tasks of the new government following the Nov. 1 polls, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has said.

Turkey's people voted for "stability and confidence" in the snap Nov. 1 elections, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said following his Justice and Development Party's (AKP) victory, while pledging to protect the rights of all citizens, not just AKP supporters.

After every election, it is customary to comment on "What did the voters say?" It does not really matter whether the voters actually wanted to say that or whether they acted with much simpler motives.

When the voters cast their votes as individuals, they do not think, "Let me give a message so that the politicians of the country understand and act accordingly."

The losers of the Nov. 1 elections were again women. According to unofficial figures, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has 34 women deputies, while the Republican People's Party (CHP) has 21, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has 23 and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has three, equaling 81 women deputies in total.

Deputies from Armenian, Syriac, Yazidi, Mhallami and Roma origins, who secured seats in the June 7 election, have all preserved their seats in the Nov. 1 election, weekly Agos has reported.

Former Turkish consul-general Öztürk Y?lmaz, who was among 49 people kidnapped by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for 101 days in Iraq's Mosul and released in September 2014, has become a member of parliament on the Republican People's Party (CHP) ticket, while also helping the party to increase its votes in the Nov. 1 polls.