Turkey’s Supreme Electoral Commission announced today that the second round of presidential elections will take place on May 28, for the first time in the country’s history in 100 years, Ahmed Yanar, head of the commission, said in a press statement: After sorting 100 percent of the ballots inside the country, nothing happened. The election does not have enough votes to win, and it is decided to hold a second round on Sunday, May 28th.
And the Turkish High Electoral Commission announced earlier today that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Public Alliance candidate, won 49.40 percent of the vote, while his main rival, National Alliance candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, won 44.96 percent of the vote. voting in presidential elections, after counting about 99 percent of the votes.
The head of the commission confirmed that the level of participation in the elections within the country was 88.92 percent, and abroad – 52.69 percent.
Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in Turkey yesterday, in which the Public Alliance candidate, incumbent outgoing President Erdogan, the Alliance of Nations candidate Kılıçdaroğlu and the Ata Forefathers Alliance candidate Sinan Ogan participated in the presidential elections, after the withdrawal of the candidate from Balad party of Muharram Inje.
