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31 March Local Election Briefing

TURKEY

On Sunday 31 March Turkey holds its local elections. Dozens of metropolitan mayoralties, thousands of district municipal mayoralties and provincial councillors, and tens of thousands of municipal councillors will be up for election. While local elections would usually be viewed as an event with only minor implications for national politics and markets, that is not the case this electoral cycle. In this briefing we outline how the nationwide vote share and the performance of major parties in key cities could have a significant impact not only on Turkey’s short-to-medium term political and economic outlook, but also its longer-term political system.


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