A fresh general election in Turkey will be held on Nov. 1, nearly five months after an inconclusive poll that saw no party win an overall majority.
The announcement came after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called a snap election on Monday.
Sadi Guven, president of the Supreme Election Board, on Tuesday said the election date was decided to take the approaching winter into account, particularly in eastern and southeastern Turkey.
Since the June election, which saw the Justice and Development (AK) Party lose its majority and the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) enter parliament for the first time, Turkey has faced a renewed Kurdish insurgency, threats from Daesh and a plummeting Turkish lira.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu failed to form a coalition government and last week the electoral authority prepared a draft election calendar for the four parliamentary parties to consider.
Guven said a finalized version of the calendar would be ready by Thursday.
Davutoglu now has the task of forming a provisional administration in the run-up to the election.
