With 92% of the votes counted, the current president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, obtains 49.76% support but fails to prevail in the first round. The opposition denounced manipulation. If the trend is confirmed, the candidates will go to the ballot on May 28
Recep Tayyip ErdoganPresident of Turkey, candidate for re-election and ally of President Nicolás Maduro, did not reach 50% of the votes for the first time since the start of the presidential election count this Sunday, May 14, so there will be a second round between the current president and his main rival, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu.
With 90% of the country’s ballot boxes open, Erdogan leads with a 49.9% of the votes counting of the presidential elections in Türkiyeaccording to the preliminary results of the official Anadolu agency, while they wait for the official results.
For his part, the candidate of the opposition bloc, the social democrat Kemal Kilicdaroglu, would obtain 44%, data that was rejected by the candidate himself. “We are in the lead,” he said through his Twitter social network. His party, the CHP, also accused Anadolude of not giving reliable data and the AKP of having been blocking the counting of the ballots, challenging the tally sheets in areas where the opposition is stronger.
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A third candidate the nationalist Sinam Ogan, would have 5.3% of the ballots. If the result offered by Anadolu Agency is confirmed, none of the candidates would obtain an absolute majority, so a second round would be necessary in two weeks.
The independent agency Anka also does not grant an absolute majority to either of the two candidates, but Erdogan would have 48% ahead and between 44-45% to the leader of the opposition. The progress of the count is very different depending on the region, and in big cities like Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, where the opposition has more support, it is a little slower than in the country as a whole. so results may still vary.
In the parliamentary elections, the alliance formed around the AKP, Erdogan’s Islamist party, would have 50% of the votes and 325 of the 600 deputies in Parliament, thus maintaining the absolute majority it has had for 20 years. The CHP and its allies would obtain 34% and 215 deputies, and the leftist and pro-Kurdish party HDP and its allies would have 60, when 82% of the polls have already been opened.
Crossing of accusations between the candidates during the recount
