Backstage… Last retirement dialogue before the election: Erdogan asked Şimşek in front of the staff – Last Minute Economic News

AKP, which had a first in the March 31 elections, could not emerge as the first party in the ballot box this time. While the reasons for the defeat are being investigated, it is emphasized that one of the reasons is low pensions. Upon understanding the situation before the election, AKP’s President Erdoğan asked Minister Şimşek, “Mr. Mehmet, can we do anything about retirees?” he allegedly asked.

The possibility that AKP would lose votes and lose many provinces began to become clear as we entered the last two weeks. For this reason, some party executives and MPs reached out to the President and suggested that some economic steps be taken to ‘stop the bad trend’.

From Türkiye Newspaper Yücel KayaoğluAccording to , AKP President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek shortly before the elections and “Mr. Mehmet, can we do anything about retirees?” It was learned that he asked. However, Şimşek ‘No way’ It was stated that he answered negatively.

It was stated that in the evaluations made during the election week in the AKP, the view that ‘Even if the means were stretched and a thousand liras were given to each retiree or the holiday bonus was increased to 5 thousand liras, this would not be met with a response on the field, and it was impossible to make the 7-10 thousand liras linear increase that the opposition kept on the agenda.’ Therefore, as we entered the last week, it became clear that 11-12 more provinces would be lost in addition to Ankara and Istanbul.

“WE WIN EVERY TIME ANYWAY”

It is also objected that AKP attributes the reason for losing elections solely to the economy. Party staff say that ‘The organizations are tired of the elections’, a complacency such as ‘We win every time anyway’ and the problems experienced in candidate selection are also reflected in the election results.

In addition, party sources stated that they observed protesting voters who would not go to the polls on the field and said, “While we were working on the election, our voters were ignoring us and turning away.”

Some AKP executives and MPs stated that they had difficulty convincing even their close relatives to go to the polls. In the meetings held in the party, he said, “AK Party has more than 11 million members, if each member could convince even one person, we would have to get 22 million votes. But it was determined that the votes received by the AK Party in this election were 16.3 million.