AKP’s plan to govern even if it loses

The AKP intends to make post-24-June preparations by means of the bill in connection with the harmonisation laws that authorises the government to issue decrees with the force of law. The criteria for establishing ministries and appointing top-level civil servants will be regulated by presidential decree following the election. The AKP, while on the one hand drafting decrees to give the president a freer hand, will, on the other, place a provision in the decree with the force of law for the repealing of the current laws governing civil service appointments along with ministries and public institutions and entities on the day the President takes office.

Will come out next week

It is planned for the authorisation law bill that the government submitted to parliament the evening before last to be speedily debated in the Parliamentary Planning and Budget Commission and for it to be passed through parliament next week at the latest. Following completion of the authorisation law bill, parliament will go into recess. The regulations in the bill, in turn, will be issued following the election.

 The following measures are expected to be included in the presidential decrees:

The parliamentary system will be abolished: Terms such as regulations, the Cabinet, the Council of Ministers, Cabinet resolution, Council of Ministers resolution, Cabinet regulation, government, prime minister, prime minister’s office, martial law and bill that appear in regulations, statutes and decrees with the force of law governing the establishing, organising, duties and powers of public institutions and entities will be abolished. These expressions are said to be mentioned in more than 800 statutes and decrees with the force of law.

 External civil servants

Redesigned public order: The existing affiliations and relationships of affiliated, semi-affiliated and quasi-affiliated institutions will be redetermined, and laws and decrees with the force of law that have no possibility of being implemented will be repealed. The procedures and principles governing the establishing, abolishing, duties, powers, staff and organisational structure along with the establishing of central and provincial organisations of ministries and public institutions and entities, and the appointing of top-level public administrators will be laid down anew.

 Ministry laws will be repealed: Existing laws governing the establishing and the central and provincial organisations of ministries, and the appointing of top-level civil servants, which will be made subject to presidential decree under a constitutional amendment by means of decrees with the force of law to be issued on the basis of the authorisation law, will be repealed on the day the President takes office.

The number of ministries will be reduced and civil servants may be appointed externally: The AKP is planning to reduce the number of ministerial posts totalling 26 of which five are deputy prime ministers and to combine certain ministries and also to split certain of them. There is talk that the number of deputy presidents may be five and the number of ministries may be reduced to fifteen. There will reportedly be a transition to the system of appointing civil servants externally if need be in civil service appointments, just like with ministers.

Laws that will fall under the scope of decrees with the force of law: Following the passage of the authorisation law, decrees with the force of law that the government issues will cover the Law on the Publication of Copies and Promulgation and Effectiveness of Laws and Regulations, the Law on the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration, the Law on the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works, the Law on the Prime-Ministerial Printworks Capital Enterprise, the Law on the Procedure for Appointments in Ministries and Affiliated Institutions, the Decree with the Force of Law on General Staff and associated Procedures, the Decree with the Force of Law on the Principles for the Establishing and Duties of Ministries number 174, the Decree with the Force of Law on the Organisation of the Prime Ministry, the organisational laws governing the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Interior Ministry, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources and Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the organisational laws governing the General Directorate of Forestry, General Directorate of Sport, Treasury Undersecretariat and Social Security Institution, and the Public Financial Administration and Control Law along with amendments made to, the repealing of and new regulations in other laws and decrees with the force of law.

Certain services will be combined in a single institution: While exercising its decree with the force of law power, the government will give consideration to the conducting of public services in a productive, speedy and effective manner, the making of regulations that accord with the nature and requirements of services, the basing of appointments and in-service promotions on the principles of career and meritocracy and on quality staff being employed, the achieving of a division of tasks and coordination in public services, the performance of similar services by a single institution or unit and the avoiding of waste in the use of resources.

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