The majority of Turkey’s population believes that the neither the opposition nor its political alliance is ready to rule the country, according to a new survey by Turkish pollster Metropoll.
Fourty -seven percent of those surveyed answered negatively when asked if the Nation Alliance or opposition parties were prepared to rule Turkey, Gerçek Gündem news site reported on Saturday.
Those without faith in the opposition edged out those who retained hope by one percentage point at 46 percent, the survey found.
The survey arrives 18 months ahead of the next elections in Turkey, where the government is seeking to steer the country’s worst economic crisis in the nearly 20-year rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Soaring inflation and the plunging lira have dealt a blow to Erdoğan and his government’s popularity and undecided voters likely to play a crucial role at the next parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for 2023, according to analysts.
Turkey’s ruling People’s Alliance won a combined 54 percent of the vote in 2018, as compared to 34 percent of the National Alliance comprising the nationalist Good Party, secularist Republican People’s Party and Islamic-leaning Felicity Party.
There are currently six parties expected to form the opposition Nation Alliance ahead of the next polls, and they have yet to announce which candidate they will stand against Erdoğan in the next polls.