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The 2nd Justice and Development Party Extraordinary Congress will be a party convention of the ruling Justice and Development Party of Turkey due to be held in 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 former AKP founder and leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[1]
Transport and Communications Minister Binali Yıldırım is expected to run for the leadership as a pro-Erdoğan candidate. 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. It is currently unknown if Davutoğlu, or any other candidate critical of Erdoğan will stand for election.[2]
