despite the economic crisis in TürkiyeThe attrition of 20 years of authoritarianism and criticism of February’s devastating earthquake management, Recep Tayyip Erdogan Voters retained their power in today’s presidential elections and in two weeks he will want to reconfirm the position in the second round.
Erdogan amid vote counting and allegations of manipulation by the Social Democratic opposition He won the elections, albeit by a narrow margin. and losing the absolute majority it won in 2014 and reaffirmed in 2018.
The still unofficial issue of various media gives the head of state 49.5% of the vote, four points above the opposition bloc candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who united social democrats, nationalists and Islamists.
with everything, These data are based on the review provided by the parties. and it is distributed by the media, not by the Election Commission’s official count, which is slower to get the votes into the system.
In fact, Kılıçdaroğlu personally condemned Erdoğan’s party. AKP, “Constantly forcing ballots and blocking the system.”
Many party leaders assured that the opposition candidate would be ahead when all the ballots were counted.
Erdogan, who served as prime minister between 2003 and 2014 before becoming president, brought these elections to the agenda as a test for the country’s survival and warned that if he won, the opposition would agree with the Kurdish terrorists. Türkiye drifts into chaos It would be at the mercy of Western economic and political interests.
The opposition promised to reverse the loss of rights and freedoms. cleaning up an economy badly affected by the lira’s devaluation and high inflation.
In short, today’s elections have been a referendum on popularity. Erdogan, the president with the most power at the age of 69 Since the founding of modern Turkey in 1923.
This result upset many of the polls that predicted that Kılıçdaroğlu would triumph on the promise of re-democratizing the country and bringing it closer to Western values while maintaining ties with Russia.
Nor did they affect the popularity of the president. delays in rescue and assistance and complaints of mismanagement earthquake victims The event that devastated the southeast of the country last February and killed 50,000 people.
Overall, in the most affected region, Erdogan and his allies have barely lost support.
If the result is officially confirmed, The current president and candidate Kılıçdaroğlu will meet again in two weeksthis time alone and without the approval of the nationalist Sinan Ogan, the third candidate who remains at 5 percent today.
Again, regarding the parliamentary elections held today; The AKP and its ultranationalist allies received 42 percent of the vote. and 324 seats in Parliament, where they maintain their absolute majority.
As a result, AKP alone took the worst result in its history.
Opposition bloc won 211 seatsand the progressive and pro-Kurdish HDP is another 65.
Despite the decline in voter support, AKP and Erdogan did not lose any of their fourteen election appointments, Between the municipal, parliament, presidency and referendums held since 2002, when the Islamist formation came to power.