Last week, the Constitutional Court once again made a decision that attracted public attention. After several months of examination of the application for Judicial Review submitted by the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem), the court decided that the parliamentary threshold provision of 4 percent which had been used as a condition for the political party to enter the House of Representatives must be revised. That said, before the 2029 election, the Constitutional Court asked lawmakers to recalculate and set the correct threshold number. Through several considerations, this decision can be understood, but on the other hand, many questions arise. The provisions regarding the parliamentary threshold have been repeatedly changed, but this is not the case with the presidential threshold provisions. Of over thirty Judicial Review applications submitted to the Constitutional Court regarding changes to the presidential threshold, all were rejected. Why is that?To subscribe please click here
