3rd Justice and Development Party Extraordinary Congress

Justice and Development Party leadership election, 2017
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Registered1,470 delegates
 
Candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Party AK Party
Delegate vote 1,414
Percentage 100%
Leader before election

Binali Yıldırım
AK Party

Elected Leader

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AK Party

The 3rd Justice and Development Party Extraordinary Congress took place on 20 and 21 May 2017 in order to elect a party leader and members to the party congress of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party).[1] The party's founder and first leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was the only candidate for the post, having left the leadership upon his election as President in 2014.[2] Having been initially required to sever his political party relations on grounds of impartiality, a constitutional referendum in 2017 turned Turkey into an executive presidency, allowing Erdoğan to return to the AK Party and become its leader.[3]

  1. ^ "AK Parti kongresi 20-21 Mayıs'ta yapılacak".
  2. ^ "Erdoğan: 2017'de Kongre Yapılabilir, AK Parti'nin Başına Geçeceğim". 25 April 2017.
  3. ^ "AKP'de olağanüstü kongreye doğru".