Erbakan was banned from politics for five years, and former MP members and mayors of RP joined the successor Virtue Party. Istanbul mayor, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from the Virtue Party, was soon afterwards given a prison sentence after he read a nationalist and Islamist poem at a public function where he was present as mayor, and he was banned from politics for five years as well.
Erbakan's suspension from politics led to former parliament members and mayors of RP joining the new Virtue Party. Shortly afterwards, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from the Virtue Party received a prison sentence after reciting an Islamist poem at a public gathering, and he too faced a five-year ban from politics.