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Turkey: Ruling AKP set for clear election victory, survey shows

The pre-election poll by the A&G Survey company was carried out in 65 different cities and 7,208 people from various parts of the country were asked to indicate their political preferences.

Istanbul, 19 July (AKI) - Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is poised to capture around 330 parliament seats in Sunday’s elections allowing the Islamic-rooted party to form a single party government, a survey shows.

On Tuesday, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would retire from politics if the AKP fails to garner enough votes to form a single-party government, a decision which now seems unlikely if results of the pre-election poll by the A&G Survey company, prove correct.

A&G carried out its survey in 65 different cities and 7,208 people from various parts of the country were asked to indicate their political preferences.

Some 42,5 million Turks are eligible to vote and according to the survey, Sunday's turnout will be around 84 percent.

The survey results show that three parties: the AKP, the secularist left-wing People’s Republican Party (CHP) and the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) will be the only parties to win seats since only they stand to win more than 10 percent of votes needed to ensure representation in parliament.

The AKP will have between 47.5 - 50 percent of the votes; the CHP will have between 18 - 21 percent, and; the MHP will have between 13 - 14.5 percent, the survey results indicated.

Although other surveys have suggested that the AKP will win some 45 percent of the votes, none had given it a 50 percent share of all ballots cast.

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