Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan won his fifth consecutive election victory on Sunday and finally will be able to rule Turkey with an omnipotent/almighty one-man system non-existent in any democratic country.

Most pundits agree he is now in the club of ‘strong rulers’ like Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China.

He can be potentially in power until 2032 – with the new system, a president can run twice and also for a third time if he calls for early elections – and calling early elections is within the president’s authority.

In the wake of last year’s controversial referendum for a sultan-like presidential system, Putin advisor Sergei Markov famously declared that Erdogan’s authority would now be much more strong and vast, compared with that of the Russian leader.

As the New York Times put it, Erdogan now has “dictatorial powers” at his disposal. That presidential system is now put into effect with full speed after Sunday’s elections.

In short, the regime Turkey had since the founding of the republic has changed

The office of the prime minister will be abolished, the parliament will be mostly reduced to a rubber-stamp house, the president will directly appoint many high-ranking officials including Constitutional Court judges and he will make the budget and rule with decrees without any scrutiny.