Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did not make it to win the first round of the presidential elections in Turkey: when the ballot was completed, the outgoing president stopped at 49.4% while his challenger, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, obtained 45%. We therefore go to the ballot on May 28th.
The Ankara YSK Election Council has also officially announced that there will be a runoff.
Kılıçdaroğlu promises to win in runoff Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu promised to win the runoff
on May 28: "If our nation says second round, we will absolutely win the second round," he told reporters. "This willingness to change in society is more than 50%."
Erdogan: we are well ahead in the vote President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stressed that he is clearly far ahead of Kılıçdaroğlu in the vote
, even if he does not win in the first round. Erdoğan, speaking at his party's headquarters in Ankara, said he was ahead of the main opposition candidate by 2.6 million votes. "Throughout our political life, without exception, we have always respected the decision of the national will. We also respect it in this election and we will respect it in the next ones," he said. Erdogan also said he expected to win in the first round.
The coalition of parties that supported Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in yesterday's elections in Turkey won a majority of deputies in parliament. According to data from state television TRT, the People's Alliance formed by Erdogan's AKP and other far-right and Islamist parties obtained a majority with 322 parliamentarians out of 600, a number however insufficient to be able to change the Constitution, for which 360 deputies are needed. The parties of the main opposition coalition obtained 212 parliamentarians while the Alliance of Freedom Labor, formed by the pro-Kurdish Green Left Party (YSP) and the Left Workers' Party, obtained 66 deputies of which 62 from the YSP, which became the third most represented party in the assembly.