Voting ended at 17:00, which coincides with Kyiv time. After that, the voters’ votes will immediately begin to be counted.
Voting in Turkey’s parliamentary and presidential elections has ended. Now the counting of votes will begin. This was reported by the Turkish news agency Anadolu on Sunday, May 14.
Polling stations close at 17:00. From that moment, the votes begin to be counted. The media is prohibited from reporting private results until 21:00 local time, which coincides with Kyiv.
The current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan voted in one of the districts of Istanbul, and then went to Ankara.
Erdogan’s main opponent, general opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu and third candidate Sinan Ogan voted in Ankara.
Kilicdaroglu, after the vote, noted in a commentary in publications that “we all lack democracy” and expressed hope that “spring will come to this country and spring will continue.”
If none of the candidates receives more than 50% of the votes, the presidential race will decide who wins in the second round, which will be held on May 28.
It should be noted that the latest opinion polls showed Kilicdaroglu ahead of Erdogan by five percentage points.
It will be remembered that on Sunday, May 14, Erdogan gave money to children at the polling station in one of the secondary schools in Istanbul.
Turkey’s presidential elections are about to begin
Source: korrespondent
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