People showed red card to Erdo?an's presidential system hopes, Demirta? tells CNN

Everyone in Turkey is happy with election results that have ?closed the door of dictatorship to the president,? Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? told Christiane Amanpour on CNN International on June 8.

?We want a pluralistic system that supports freedoms and we wanted to prevent a dictatorship by [Turkish President Recep] Tayyip Erdo?an. We have been able to close that door so this is a very good result for Turkey. The result we achieved has made everyone concerned very happy,? Demirta? said.

He told CNN that although a majority of voters supported Erdo?an during last year?s presidential election, people have now expressed their demand for a multi-party parliamentary system rather than a presidential system. 

?Mr. Erdo?an expressed his will to change the constitution and become an active president in a presidential regime. But the general public, it seems, did not like his attempt. They showed it a red card. They prevented the [Justice and Development Party] AKP from forming a single-party government,? said Demirta?, whose party received 13 percent of the vote on June 7, according to unofficial election results.

The AKP has most seats in parliament but lacks power to form a single-party government, which Demirta? said will bring about ?the era of coalitions or maybe early elections.?

?The AKP has to give up its one-man regime dream. They will have to find a solution in cooperation with the opposition parties,? he added. 

The co-chair of the Kurdish problem-focused HDP also said the Kurdish peace process, which stalled in the months before the June 7 election, could be restarted. 

?There has been a dialogue process for the last two-and-a-half years for a solution of the Kurdish...