Threshold

An elementary school teacher with a theology degree is behind the Niki (Victory) party, which just missed out on the 3% threshold for entering Parliament on the May 21 election day.

Parliament on Thursday ratified a film co-production agreement which is believed will pave the way for more projects in the future. The deal, which was signed on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival last May, brings down Greece's minimum contribution to 10 percent. Previous legislation introduced in 1974 set a 20 percent threshold.

“It was a special moment, crossing an important threshold in exoplanet sciences”

Greece is on the 3% threshold

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has said Turkey’s 10 percent election threshold is no concern for her newly founded movement, adding that she did not expect the lowering of the threshold.

It is no secret and probably even shepherds grazing their sheep on the hills of southeastern Turkey or workers harvesting tea at a Black Sea farm are well aware that Turkey's main political problem handicapping that progression of democracy stems from two basic laws: the law on elections and the law on political parties.

Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirta? has confidently said his party will pass the 10 percent election threshold, even predicting that it will get as many as ?25 percent of the votes.?

A day after Turkey's Constitutional Court dismissed individual complaints filed to lower the 10 percent parliamentary threshold, the main opposition party submitted a fresh bill to Parliament to reduce the election threshold to 3 percent "for fairer representation."

The Constitutional Court’s decision to accept an “admissible” application by three small political parties, which stand on the fringes of the political spectrum, to have the 10 percent electoral threshold reduced has seriously agitated members of the government.