Our poll of polls tables, which have gathered the results of nine different polling agencies March through June reveal a significant increase in the number of undecided voters, as well as a gradual but potentially irreversible slide in the combined support for AK Party and its ally nationalist MHP. Even though next set of national elections are scheduled for 2023, President Erdogan doesn’t have the luxury of time, as two of his former lieutenants Messrs. Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu, the parties of whom are slowly registering in poll figures. Erdogan is losing control of social media, where the opposition is campaigning effectively to dismantle AK Party’s story of success promoted widely in the main-stream media.
Erdogan must revive the economy over summer months, or ”else”. Can he? What is the “else”?
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