However, the introduction of electoral alliances by the March amendments affects the threshold (Law on Parliamentary Elections Article 12/A). For parties participating in an electoral alliance, the threshold applies to the votes received by the alliance as a whole and not to the individual parties (amendment of 13 March 2018 to the Law on Parliamentary Elections Article 33). This rule partly mitigates the effect of the 10% threshold by allowing smaller parties to meet the threshold by grouping together or aligning themselves with a larger party.19
19 For the 2018 parliamentary election, the introduction of electoral alliances benefitted the junior partner in the opposition coalition, the İyi Party, which received 9.96% of the votes. This party still met the 10% threshold by forming an electoral alliance with the Republican People’s Party, which received 22.64% of the votes.