Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in power for 20 years, is ahead in the presidential race, when 90% of the votes have already been counted, in elections disputed by the opposition.
The two agencies that are reporting the results indicate that the current head of state is ahead in the count.
Anadolu (state and pro-regime) indicates that Erdogan has 52.61%, compared to Kemal Kiliçdaroglu (47.39%). Anka (pro-opposition) also gives Erdogan a victory (50.80%) over Kemal Kiliçdaroglu (49.20%).
In the first round of the presidential elections, Erdogan won 49.5% of the vote, almost five points ahead of his opponent, Kiliçdaroglu.
The polling stations closed at 5:00 p.m., two hours less in Lisbon. The Turkish opposition today denounced irregularities in the second round of the presidential elections, such as physical attacks against electoral observers in the southwestern region and false votes.
The social democratic party CHP reported the existence of votes in favor of people who are not on the lists, the registration of dead as voters and the delivery of pre-filled forms.
After the alliance around Erdogan and led by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) achieved a new absolute majority in parliament in the first round of the elections on May 14, the strategy of the two rivals focused on trying to win 5.2% of the votes. which Sinan Ogan, the third presidential candidate, received in the first round.
Kiliçdaroglu, leader of the center-left, secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) since 2010 and running for president of a six-party coalition of Turkish opposition parties, has turned a corner in the past two weeks. to the right in an attempt to capture the ultranationalist vote, much to the chagrin of the more leftist forces that support him.
Earlier in the week, Ogan publicly declared his support for Erdogan, but two nationalist parties that supported him in the campaign and integrated into the Ancestral Alliance (ATA) chose to back Kiliçdaroglu and his speech against the 3.5 million refugees from war. in Syria who began to be welcomed in Turkish territory in 2011.
Erdogan, who was prime minister between 2003 and 2014 before his first presidential election, also faces a political problem after his AKP admitted the small Kurdish fundamentalist party Huda-Par, the heir to an ultra-Islamist armed group from the 1990s. who elected four deputies to the new parliament.
Turkey has some 85 million inhabitants and more than 61 million registered voters.
Source: TSF
