The 2018 amendments to Law No. 2839 partly met international recommendations by mitigating the effects of the high electoral threshold since they enabled political parties to establish electoral alliances that would be subject to the same threshold. This arrangement was indeed used in the 2018 elections, in which two main alliances, the pro-government People’s Alliance and the opposition Nation Alliance, took part. Three parties participated in the elections on their own and only one of them, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) surpassed the threshold, further supporting that the system made it difficult for individual political parties, not entering the elections in alliance with any major party, to get over the required threshold.