The head of Turkey’s High Electoral Commission announced on Monday the end of the counting process for the presidential election and the start of the second round. He said that as of 3:15 pm local time, “100 percent of the boxes were open.” , and (the ruling party (public) coalition candidate won.” Recep Tayyip Erdogan won 49.51% of the vote. While his opponent, opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, won 44.88%, according to inconclusive results, adding: ” The second round of elections will be held between Erdogan and Kılıçdaroglu on May 28.”
And it was officially announced that the elections would go to the second round, because none of the candidates got 50% plus 1, which is the percentage required to win the elections.
The vote counting process ended on Monday after the elections were held on Sunday and the Tahrir Administration released a statement early in the morning announcing that it had counted 99.27 percent of the votes and that Erdoğan received 49.37 percent of the votes. , while Davutoglu received 44.95 percent and Sinan Ogan retained 5.2 percent of the total vote.
As for the parliamentary elections, the results on the other hand show that the ruling coalition has retained the majority. For the first time, parties affiliated with Justice and Development entered, the most prominent of which, represented by the National Movement Party, became a new player.
