Under the
Turkish Cypriot constitution, the members of the new parliament must gather to be sworn in 10 days after the results are officially published. Soon after this first session, President
Rauf Denktaş had to decide whom to ask building a government. As a result he asked
Mehmet Ali Talat of the
Republican Turkish Party (CTP) to form the next government. Talat had 15 days to establish a coalition government. It was hard for him to build a government. The two blocs in the parliament, the "pro
Annan plan" bloc and the "status quo" bloc, each had 25 seats in parliament. The
National Unity Party refused Talat's offer to build a government together, and as a result the only way to build a government for Talat was to get the
Democratic Party (DP) to join his government. After some unsuccessful talks, the DP agreed to build a coalition with the CTP. As a result a coalition relying on a narrow majority of 26 out of 50 seats was built. ==References==