Polls: Pro-Kurdish HDP unlikely to pass electrol threshold


The latest election poll, which was coducted by the prominent polling company GENAR, shows that the public support for the AK Party is at 47 percent, while the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) gets 24 percent, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) 13 percent and pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is unable to pass 10 percent threshold with 9 percent support.

According to a poll by the Objective Research Center (ORC) taken between April 9 and April 13, 48.3 percent of the participants chose the AK Party when asked who they would vote for in the event of a general election today. The closest rival to the AK Party in the poll's results is the CHP, with 23.7 percent.. While the MHP was the choice of 14.4 percent of the participants, 8.9 percent chose the pro-Kurdish HDP.