Agencies – Ankara:
The Supreme Elections Council confirmed that the race was postponed to a second round, for the first time in the country’s history.
Council Speaker Ahmed Yanar said the candidate of the ruling “People’s Alliance”, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, received 49.40 percent, while the opposition “Nation’s Alliance” candidate, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, received 44.96 percent, and the right-wing nationalist “ATA Alliance” candidate, Sinan Ogan, received 5.20 percent. cent of votes.
None of the three candidates was able to win the elections in its first round, knowing that the fourth candidate, head of the “Balad” party, Muharram Ince, withdrew 3 days before the presidential and parliamentary elections that were held on Sunday.
And one of them had to get 50 percent + 1 of the votes of the more than 64 million voters, of which 5.2 million voters voted for the first time.
The run-off for the presidential elections will take place between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu on May 28. The Supreme Electoral Council did not announce the voter turnout, but unofficial estimates indicated the highest turnout in the history of the elections in Turkey, amounting to 93.6 percent.
In the preliminary results of the parliamentary elections, there was no significant change in the form of the new parliament, and the “People’s Alliance” maintained its majority by 49.4 percent and won 321 of the 600 seats in parliament, while the “Nation’s Alliance” won 35.1 percent, achieving 231 seats. And the “Coalition of Labor and Freedom” won 10.5 percent, which guaranteed it 66 seats. The percentage of “Justice and Development” was 35.5 percent, “Republican People” 25.4 percent, “National Movement” 10.1 percent, “Good” 9.7 percent, and “Green Left” 8.8 percent.
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