Several Turkish opposition members have objected to the weekend’s election results. The own logs would not match the official data, the argument goes. Irregularities are also said to have occurred in Kurdish strongholds.
The parliamentary and presidential elections in Turkey continue to cause a stir. The opposition complained about irregularities in the count. “We follow every vote, even if they don’t change the overall result,” the deputy leader of the largest opposition party, CHP, Muharrem Erkek, said on Wednesday.
In more than 7,000 cases, the CHP logs did not match the data entered at the election authority, Erkek said. The party would now have objected.
In parliamentary elections, irregularities were found in 4,825 ballot boxes – to the detriment of the CHP and its ally Iyi. In the presidential election, there are irregularities at 2,269 ballot boxes. The pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP objected on Tuesday. More than 2,000 votes were falsely attributed to the ruling alliance in their strongholds, according to the party.
Second election on May 28
In Turkey’s presidential election on Sunday, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the most votes, but just missed out on an absolute majority. He now has to face the runner-up, opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, in a runoff on May 28 (see chart below).
“We will, God willing, achieve a historic success,” Erdogan tweeted Tuesday. His opponent Kılıçdaroğlu, of course, sees things differently: “In this country there are more people for change than those who don’t want it,” he tweeted. “But it is also clear that we are the ones who have to fight much harder to get rid of such a ruthless government.” In parliament, on the other hand, the forces are clearly divided. According to preliminary data, Erdogan’s governing alliance was able to maintain the majority (see chart below).
Erdogan significantly stronger abroad
International election observers criticized an unfair election campaign and a lack of transparency in voting. In total, some 64 million people were called to vote in Sunday’s elections, some 3.4 million of them abroad, where Erdogan was clearly in the lead. There were about 200,000 ballot boxes.
Source: Krone
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