Nail-Biter Turkish Election Goes to Round 2 as Majority Eludes Erdogan
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Source: New York Times
The outcome of the vote set the stage for a two-week battle between Mr. Erdogan and Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the opposition leader, to secure victory in a May 28 runoff that may reshape Turkeys political landscape.
With the unofficial count nearly completed, Mr. Erdogan received 49.4 percent of the vote to Mr. Kilicdaroglus 44.8 percent, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency.
But both sides claimed to be ahead.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/14/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-presidential-election.html
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)Bev54
(10,053 posts)that 94% of the ballot boxes were opened, which I think means they are now counting, but only about 60% of the vote was actually counted.
ColinC
(8,301 posts)I heard that Erdogan's people are challengin every ballot that they can just to manipulate perception by slowing the count as much as possible.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)Its as if the entire worlds maladies have the rural people to blame.
The rural people seem to think only they are the people when they say they need to take the power back. The trouble is they dont realize that their ultra narrow uniformed world view has other people besides them who should also be represented. They want mob rule (ochlocracy) because they think their mob mentality is what the vast majority want. They are so wrong
but those who use them as pawns find ways to rule as a minority.
oldsoftie
(12,555 posts)Erdogan needs to go
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)I was hoping for a big first ballot victory for Kilicdaroglu.
Which I knew was a long shot. Now that its this close, there is no way that Erdogan will lose. He will make sure of that. If its close enough that if he loses by a few votes, he will get away with a Jan 6th but with the army, and claim power by saying there was some kind of corruption with the vote.