In the Commission’s view, it is true that the simultaneous anticipated elections both for the presidency and parliament could be an effective means to resolve deadlock situations with the President and parliament blocking each other's initiatives. However, under the amendments there is a general rule that presidential and parliamentary elections must always be held at the same time (Article 77). This entails the consequence, due to a phenomenon of “attraction” of the parliamentary elections under the presidential campaign, which is far more personal and nation-wide, that parliament will most likely represent the same political party as the President, even if the Turkish authorities stress that there is a possibility that the candidate elected as President in the second round is not a member of the party that wins the majority of seats in the parliament. The TGNA needs a majority of 3/5 to decide to renew its elections. This, coupled with the President’s powers of patronage over the parliament (see above), will mean that in practice parliament is not likely to be a hurdle to the President’s action. Instead, under these conditions the power of the TGNA to dissolve itself during the President’s second mandate, thus provoking anticipated presidential elections in which