Last Sunday, Turkish citizens showed up en masse to vote. couple electionsparliamentary and presidential. Although voting is compulsory in the Anatolian country, it has never voted registered. stake very high, on the verge of 90%. The results that upset the polls were not enough to conclude the struggle for the presidency and the next term. 28 May The two main candidates who will rule the country will be re-measured.
Who is showing up?
Unlike the first round, where four candidates agree, only the two candidates with the most votes will face off in this second round. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s current president and the Islamist leader of the AKP party, and Kemal KilicdarogluHe is the opposition candidate who managed to bring together the parties opposing Erdogan’s authoritarian orientation for the first time in a coalition.
What do the polls say?
Polls predicted that the opposition would win in the first round, but the reality was ultimately different. Ergogan received 49.5% He not only defeated Kılıçdaroğlu, who received 44.9 percent of the vote, but is on the verge of obtaining the necessary majority to be re-elected president for the third time. only five-tenths of the required threshold of 50%. In this second round, it is not yet clear how support will be distributed and the 5% received by the third candidate is expected to continue.
Who will Sinan Ogan support?
A name that started to make a name for himself after this first election round: Sinan Ogan. And the thing is, his political figure, who became the third political power in the country with 5.3 percent of the vote, gained great importance against the runoff. Ogan is likely to play a crucial role in the runoff, as both Erdogan and Kılıçdaroğlu will try to win his support and votes. Still, there are indications that the nation will choose its leader.
First time there’s a second round
The Anatolian country is holding a runoff for the first time since Erdogan transformed the party in 2017. semi-presidential parliamentary constitutional regime in a presidency. Until now, the president had reaffirmed his mandate, always exceeding 50% in the first election, but on this occasion he received much less support. When none of the presidential candidates gets more than 50 percent of the vote, a new conflict will take place at the ballot box between the two candidates who received the most votes on May 28, Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu.