Last Sunday, Turkish citizens turned out in droves to vote in a Parliamentary and presidential elections. Although voting is compulsory in the Anatolian country, no one is registered a class Very high, on the verge of 90%. The results, which turned the opinion polls upside down, were not enough to decide the battle for the presidency and the next one May 28th The main candidates for leading the country will be measured again.
Unlike the first round, where four candidates agreed, in this second round only the two candidates with the most votes will face each other. Recep Tayyip Erdoganthe current president of the country and the Islamist leader of the Justice and Development Party, W Kemal Kilicdarogluthe opposition candidate who for the first time managed to gather a coalition of parties opposing Erdogan’s authoritarian drift.
What do the polls say?
Opinion polls predicted the opposition would win in the first round, but the reality was different in the end. Erdogan got 49.5% of votes and not only did he beat Kilicdaroglu – who got 44.9% of the vote – but he was close to achieving the majority needed to be re-elected as president for the third time, Barely five-tenths of the 50% threshold of the poll. With the advent of this second round, it is still unclear how endorsements will be distributed and that the 5% that the third candidate won will remain distributed.
Who will support Sinan Ogan?
After this first election run, he began to hear a lot: Sinan Ogan. And as he became the third political force in the country, with 5.3% of the vote, his political figure gained great importance in facing the second round. Ogan is likely to play a decisive role in the runoff as both Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu will try to win his support and votes. Although there are indications that he will choose the leader of the nation.
It’s the first time it’s a second round
This is the first time that the Anatolian country has held a second round since Erdogan’s 2017 conversion Semi-presidential parliamentary constitutional system in presidential elections. So far, the president has always re-certified his state with more than 50% in the first election, but on this occasion he has had far less support. With none of the presidential candidates receiving more than 50% of the vote, the country will experience a new duel in the ballot between the two candidates with the most votes on May 28, Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu.
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