Turkey’s leading opposition parties say a draft amendment to the election law submitted to the parliament Monday by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its nationalist allies is designed to engineer their own victory at the ballot box.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party CHP, said in a parliamentary address today, “There is no power or no law that can prevent us from unseating you.”

Mithat Sancar, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), told his group of lawmakers in the chamber today, “All governments that resort to such games have always lost before the strong will of the people. These are vain attempts.”

The 12-point document brings a number of significant changes that the government insists will enhance multiparty democracy. They include lowering the threshold for a party to win parliamentary seats from 10% of the national vote to 7%. In theory, this should work to the advantage of smaller parties. But the bill also says that candidates running on a joint list will need to clear the seven percent threshold even if their alliance wins the overall vote in a given constituency.