2023-05-15 13:41:22
THE FIGURES OF THE OFFICIAL AGENCY, CHALLENGED BY THE OPPOSITION
The official Anadolu Agency gave Erdogan 52.4% of the vote following counting 43.8% of the ballots. The third candidate Sinan Ogan, a dissident from the nationalist MHP party, would be around 5% of the vote.
These figures are nevertheless disputed by the opposition. After Kemal Kiliçdaroglu’s declaration on Twitter, the CHP mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, speaking at the party headquarters in Ankara and specifying that he was speaking “on behalf of Kemal Kiliçdaroglu”, called on the citizens “not to hold account of the figures given by Anadolu”.
“We do not believe Anadolu”, he said, news agency according to him “under artificial respirator since 2019” and which “has lost all respectability”. An allusion to the tutelage of power over the main major Turkish media.
The channel close to the CHP Halk TV broadcast figures giving a slight lead to Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, 47.71% once morest 46.5% to Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We will not let our fellow citizens be fooled,” assured Ekrem Imamoglu, who had seen his election for mayor of Istanbul invalidated in 2019, before being confirmed with a bang at the polls three months later.
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