On Monday, Ogan said it explicitly: “I ask voters who voted for us in the first round to vote for Erdogan in the second round”, and that was a week after the end of the first round, and Erdogan and his rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the opposition Alliance of Nations candidate, was waiting for his post.
And Ogan, was a candidate of the “ancestral coalition”, the nationalist rejecting the presence of refugees in Turkey, and won 5.2% of the vote in the first round, and his position on who will be supported in the second round carries weight, in because of the need for Erdogan (who obtained 49.5%) and Klechtdar Davutoğlu (who obtained 44.8%) of the votes of his electorate, exceeding the 50% threshold required to declare either president .
What’s behind Erdogan’s support?
The exact reasons for Sinan Ogan’s support for Erdogan are not known, especially since the details of the one-hour meeting between the two a few days ago in Ogan’s office in Istanbul to negotiate this support are not known. were not known.
However, from what Ogan said about the rationale for his last position:
We have made Kemalism (the nationalist doctrine of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Republic of Turkey) and Turkish nationalism one of the main points on the country’s agenda, and placed the Turkish nationalist voter at the center of politics. The opposition Ummah Alliance was unable to defeat the ruling coalition or convince us of its plans. We did not ask anyone for a personal interest or position, but rather discussed with the parties in accordance with the principles. However, Ogan, who has kept Erdogan and Kılıçdaroğlu in a state of expectation and anticipation for his position since the end of the first round, has previously said nothing is free, amid speculation he will be looking for payoffs. , including the post of vice-president. .
intellectual affinity
Former Justice and Development Party MP Rasul Tosun said Sinan Ogan’s support for Erdogan was “expected”, citing Ogan’s disagreement with the National Movement Party, the ally of Erdogan in these elections, and that he is therefore intellectually closer to this alliance. than the opposition Ummah Alliance.
As Toson suggests, Sinan realized that “if he sided with Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, his political life would end, and so he supported Erdogan”.
The fate of Ogan voters’ votes
However, Turkish political analyst Javad Gok does not count much on the impact of Sinan Ogan’s support for Erdogan on the final result of the second round, scheduled for May 28.
He explains this to “Sky News Arabia” that:
Erdogan won more than 49% of the vote and only a few are missing to win the second round. Most of those who voted for Sinan Ogan were from the bloc that rejects refugee survival and seeks to distance itself from the ruling regime and the opposition. Therefore, you are expected to go to Kilicdaroglu after he pointed out that he is with the deportation of refugees in his current propaganda. Ogan does not have the power to direct the votes that elected him; He is an independent and non-partisan candidate. Thus, it is these voters who determine who they will vote for.
Today, Monday, the Victory Party, which leads the “Ata” coalition in the elections and was behind Ogan’s candidacy, announced the collapse of this alliance, and that each party within it would decide which party to support in the second round.
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