ANKARA, August 18. /TASS/. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has been reelected as chairman of the Justice and Development Party, the Anadolu agency reported referring to the results of the voting, which took place at the party’s sixth general Congress in Ankara.
All 1,380 delegates voted unanimously for Erdogan, who the only candidate nominated for this post.
The Justice and Development party was established in 2001 on the initiative of Erdogan and three other supporters. The incumbent president was elected as the first chairman of the party. From 2014 to 2017, the party was headed by Ahmet Davutoglu and Binali Yildirim because under the law that was in effect at that time the country’s president could not be a member of a political party.
Thanks to amendments to the constitution, which were approved in a referendum in April 2017, the president’s membership in political parties became possible. Erdogan re-entered the ranks of the ruling Justice and Development Party in May 2017.
