ANKARA
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) will take its share of three ministries in the upcoming caretaker government, the party leader said on Tuesday.
“Six million people voted [for us] and they have a right over three ministries,” HDP Co-Chairman Selahattin Demirtas told the media in the capital Ankara.
In a potential caretaker government, the Justice and Development (AK) Party is likely to have 12 ministries; the second-placed Republican People’s Party (CHP) is likely to have seven, while the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the HDP will get three ministries each.
However, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have so far refused to take part in the caretaker government.
About its candidates in the early election, Demirtas said that the party would go to polls with the same candidate list that they fielded during the June 7 elections.
“It is a list that has been approved by the people,” he said, adding that any HDP lawmaker could get a seat in the interim cabinet.
The HDP leader’s remarks came before his party’s executive council meeting on Tuesday.
Also on Tuesday, Erdogan gave Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu the task of forming a provisional administration in the run-up to a general election rerun expected on November 1.
On Monday, Erdogan decided on a repeat of the election, which saw no party gain enough seats to form a majority government after 13 years of AK Party rule.
