Türkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that the country’s general elections will be held on May 14 -- a month earlier than the scheduled date.
The general election was officially scheduled for June 18.
The opposition still searches for a unified candidate to stand against him, reports AFP.
"I will use my authority ... (to) bring the election date forward to May 14. This is not an early election but bringing it forward," Erdogan said in a video from his meeting with youth in northwestern city of Bursa this weekend which was shared by his office.
This could be the toughest election of Erdogan’s two-decade tenure, which has seen economic booms, massive infrastructure projects, tensions with neighbors, and a failed coup against him.
Erdogan is a leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in his country.
