Turkey: IYI Party leader criticizes presidential system

Meral Aksener says unemployment rate at 14% in Turkey, but just 9% in Tanzania

By Emin Avundukluoglu

ANKARA (AA) - A Turkish opposition leader criticized the first 500 days of the country’s new presidential system.

"This freak system left us even behind Tanzania," Meral Aksener of the Good (IYI) Party told the parliamentary group Tuesday.

Aksener said Tanzania's annual unemployment rate was around 9%.

"In Turkey, the rate is 14 percent,” she said. “The inflation is 3.6 percent in Tanzania, and the rate is around 8.5 percent in Turkey,” annually in Turkey.

She added: "The highway tolls have increased 41 percent, pilgrimage [to Mecca] prices 35 percent and umrah [to Mecca] prices 23 percent."

Aksener called for the return of a "strengthened" parliamentary system in Turkey.

Turkish voters decided to switch Turkey from a parliamentary system in 2017 to an executive presidential system of governance.

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