2nd Justice and Development Party Extraordinary Congress

The 2nd Justice and Development Party Extraordinary Congress was a party convention of the ruling Justice and Development Party of Turkey held on 22 May 2016. The congress, announced on 4 May 2016, had been long speculated by politicians and political commentators who had observed a severe deterioration in relations between Prime Minister and incumbent AKP leader Ahmet Davutoğlu and the AKP's founder and former leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Davutoğlu announced that he would not stand for re-election as party leader.

Justice and Development Party leadership election, 2016
22 May 2016
Registered1,470 delegates
Turnout96.0%
 
Candidate Binali Yıldırım
Party AK Party
Constituency İzmir (I)
Delegate vote 1,405
Percentage 100%
Leader before election

Ahmet Davutoğlu
AK Party

 Elected Leader

Binali Yıldırım
AK Party

Transport and Communications Minister Binali Yıldırım was the sole candidate for the party leadership, announced by the AKP Central Executive Committee (MKYK) on 19 May 2016. Yıldırım had been collecting signatures to launch a leadership bid in time for the last Ordinary Congress of 2015, ceasing only when Davutoğlu and Erdoğan agreed on a joint list of Central Executive Decision Board candidates days before the congress took place. He was elected with 1,405 votes.

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