and announced 18 March 2018 as the date of a regular congress. A lawsuit was filed by Bahçeli's opposition on the grounds that their demands were not met and that the party be taken to an extraordinary congress. The party leadership requested the Constitutional Court to make a decision. The court ruled in favor of Bahçeli's opponents, mandating MHP to convene an extraordinary congress with the Supreme Court unanimously approving the decision. The 6th Extraordinary Grand Congress of the MHP convened on 19 June 2016 with the participation of six candidates who declared their candidacy against Bahçeli. In the congress, which was officially a bylaws convention, it was confirmed that a number of amendments to the party's charter had been decided on, even though the headquarters claimed otherwise. With the amendment proposals accepted in the congress, 13 articles in the party bylaws were renewed. Among the amendments, an article in MHP's charter which prevented the election of chairmen in extraordinary congresses was changed to allow so. However the execution of the decisions reached in the convention was stopped with the decision of the Court of Cassation. Following this decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals, Akşener filed a complaint with the Supreme Election Council (YSK) for 'complete unlawfulness' regarding the rejection of the request for an extraordinary congress with elections. Names such as Meral Akşener, Yusuf Halaçoğlu and Ümit Özdağ were soon expelled from MHP with the decision of the MHP Disciplinary Committee. On October 25, 2017 Good Party was founded by the MHP expellees under the leadership of Akşener. People's Alliance Bahçeli supported President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the 2017 constitutional amendment referendum. In 2018, an electoral alliance between the AKP and MHP called the People's Alliance was established in preparation for that years general election. A law was then passed enabling political parties to form alliances in elections. Bahçeli stated that he was not running for president and that MHP would support Erdoğan's candidacy. Erdoğan was reelected president, and MHP received 11% of the votes and 49 deputies entered the parliament. Bahçeli congratulated Erdoğan for the victory and declared that the MHP had achieved a historical success. MHP has since been giving confidence and supply to an AKP minority government.In the 2019 local elections, MHP again entered the elections under the umbrella of the People's Alliance. MHP did not nominate candidates for the İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir mayoralties