Turkey processed 98.72% of the votes in the presidential elections. Currently, the incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is leading with a score of 49.35%. His main opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu is gaining 45%.
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The voter turnout was 88.84%.
If none of the candidates gets 50% plus one vote today, then the second round will take place on May 28.
The presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey are called historic, because for the first time in 20 years of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rule, an opposition candidate has a chance to succeed.
Erdogan on the evening of Sunday, May 14, said that he had won the first round by a wide margin, but would “accept” the need for a second one. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, in his speech after the election day, also spoke about the upcoming second round and the hope of winning it.
Recall that on May 14, presidential and parliamentary elections were held in Turkey. The incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the only opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu and the candidate from the Alliance ATA party bloc Sinan Ogan claimed the post of head of state. Another opposition candidate, the head of the Batkivshchyna party, Muharrem Ince, withdrew from the elections on May 11, accusing his opponents of violating the principles of fair competition.
A senior Turkish government source told Middle East Eye that the ruling Justice and Development Party’s forecast, based on the current vote count, suggests that Erdogan’s chance of winning in the first round is in the 50.2% range. to 50.4% of the vote, which is 50%. The remaining 50% point to the scenario of the second round.
The data of the Republican People’s Party’s own calculations (its head is Kilicdaroglu) indicate that Kilicdaroglu and Erdogan are entering the second round of elections. According to the party, as of 20.48, after opening 107.4 thousand voting boxes (out of 192.2 thousand), Erdogan leads with a score of 47.70%, in Kilicdaroglu – 46.54%. Kilicdaroglu himself left on Twitter at 19.53 local time a concise message “We are ahead.”
The Supreme Electoral Council (YSK, an analogue of the Russian Central Electoral Commission) promised to publish the previous official results of the elections on the night of Monday, May 15. The final results are to be published on May 19th.
The results of the vote so far diverge from the results of public opinion polls conducted a little more than a week before the election. Thus, according to the results of the poll on May 6-7, Konda predicted the victory of Kilicdaroglu with 49.3% of the vote, and Erdogan assumed the second place and the support of 43.7% of the population.
Erdogan’s party, the Justice and Development Party, is still leading in the parliamentary elections. After processing 97.84% of the ballots, the political force receives 35.4% of the votes, the Republican People’s Party – 25.38%.
On May 14, Erdogan voted at a polling station in a school in Istanbul’s Uskudar district. At the precinct of the president and his wife, Emine met a crowd of fans. Security measures in the building were tightened: the school was guarded by security personnel; there was also an armored car nearby. The video, filmed at the site, shows how Erdogan distributed money to children on the occasion of the country’s Mother’s Day.
During Erdogan’s voting, children were also given toys: cars for boys and dolls for girls. In the morning, Erdogan said that he would follow the results of the elections from Istanbul, but after the vote he changed his mind and arrived in Ankara at his residence in Beshtepe.
Source: Racurs
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