ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News
Göksel Bozkurt
goksel.bozkurt@hurriyet.com.tr
A unanimous vote will be sought to ratify those articles that will be
reviewed by the Preparatory Constitution Commission. If either the AKP, the CHP,
the BDP, or the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) does not vote in favor of a
certain article, then the article will become null and void. What will happen if
one of the parties withdraws from the commission? The opposition argues that the
commission will be terminated as the “unanimity of votes” will have been
disrupted. The government wing, on the other hand, points toward the CHP’s and
the BDP’s recent boycotts against taking the parliamentary oath and thus opposes
the view. The government does not want the commission to work under the shadow
of a “threat of withdrawal” in the course of the process of framing a new
constitution. It remains to be seen how the commission will proceed after the
decisions issuing from today’s meeting.
November/16/2011