Assembly of the Republic (Northern Cyprus)


The Assembly of the Republic is the parliament of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. It has 50 members, elected for a five-year term by mitigated proportional representation. A party must cross the electoral threshold to be awarded any seats. The parliament is composed of 50 MPs, chosen from six electoral districts, which are coterminous with the districts of Northern Cyprus: Lefkoşa, Gazimağusa, Girne, Güzelyurt, Lefke and İskele.
In Northern Cyprus parliamentary elections, voters vote for individual candidates. There are two ways of voting.
Parliamentary elections were last held on 7 January 2018. A coalition of four parties was formed between Republican Turkish Party, People's Party, Communal Democracy Party and Democratic Party
Note: Each voter may cast multiple votes, one for each seat in the parliament. Hence, the vote totals of some parties exceed the number of registered voters.
However, following the resignation of Finance Minister Serdar Denktaş on 8 May due to a dispute regarding the allocation of state-owned land on to a university, the People's Party withdrew from the coalition government, which caused the government to collapse. On 9 May 2019, Prime Minister Tufan Erhürman presented the Government resignation to President Akinci.
On 23 May, the UBP-HP coalition officially became the governing coalition after 2 weeks of talks, with the post of Prime Minister being handed over to Ersin Tatar.

Location

The parliament building is located on Osmanpaşa Caddesi, opposite the Turkish embassy in North Nicosia. The building is a two-storey colonial structure.

Council of Europe assembly representation

In 2004, the Turkish Cypriot community was awarded "observer status" in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Since then, the two Turkish Cypriot representatives to PACE are elected by the Assembly of Northern Cyprus.