By Ruzeki, Shadow News
On Sunday 14 May, about 60 millions of Turkish voters went to the polls to cast their vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Here is a summary of the Turkey's General Election:
As of Tuesday 5am GMT, the Supreme Election Council (YSK) and even the Anadolu news agency has Erdoğan at 49.50% and Kılıçdaroğlu at 44.89%.
Any second round of voting is likely to take place on 28 May; within two weeks.
Speaking earlier on Monday, Erdoğan said he believed he had enough votes to win the first round outright but that he would accept a runoff.
President Erdogan called out his close rival for deceive the nation and claiming they were in the lead. Late Sunday in a tweet, Kılıçdaroğlu claimed he was leading.
The Supreme Election Council (YSK) said atleast 99% of the votes have been counted, but that there have been long delays in tallying up votes from abroad.
A potential kingmaker Sinan Oğan, who has garnered at least 5.17% of the vote has voiced concern about the pace of the vote count.
Sinan Oğan said the overseas votes are being “manipulated”. He warned the Supreme Election Council to take necessary measures immediately and ensure that vote counting processes are carried out quickly. He has not provided any evidence for his claims.
In preliminary results from the parliamentary elections, Anadolu news agency reported Erdoğan’s governing coalition had secured 49.38% of the overall vote.
Tthe opposition coalition has 35.16%, with potentially another 10 percentage points if adding votes from the Kurdish-majority Peoples’ Democratic party or HDP (which ran under the Green Left party) and other socialist parties. According to Anadolu News Agency, at least 99.89% of votes have been counted.
The share of the parliamentary vote for Erdoğan’s AKP party has slightly shrunk from prior legislative elections, with the reported result the worst in at least 20 years, when the AKP came to power in 2002.
The overall parliamentary result so far suggests a victory for a range of nationalist parties, but a surprise loss for the six-party opposition coalition headed by Kılıçdaroğlu, which had expected to clinch a majority.
If successful, Kılıçdaroğlu had pledged to restore a parliamentary democracy system – rather than Erdoğan’s one.
The lira fell against the euro. The European investors, who had rooted for Kılıçdaroğlu are disappointed that Erdogan’s era does not appear to be coming to an immediate end.
Our News desk will immediately update this post once the final election results are declared by the Supreme Election Council (YSK).
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