2023-05-27 18:50:23
Turkey is preparing for the launch of the second round of the presidential elections scheduled for Sunday, between the outgoing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish opposition candidate, the leader of the “Republican People’s Party” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, after the country entered, on Saturday, the electoral silence period, as of six o’clock in the evening local time.
According to Article 49 of Law No. 298 on the Basic Provisions for Elections and Voter Records in Turkey, the electoral campaign period begins 10 days before the election date, and ends at six in the evening the day before the elections, provided that Turkish voters go, on Sunday morning, to the polls to vote. In the second round of the presidential elections, from eight in the morning until five in the evening.
Erdogan and Kılıçdaroğlu are competing, after each of them failed to get more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round of the elections held on May 14.
Erdogan won 49.52 percent of the vote, while Kilicdaroglu won 44.88 percent, and the candidate of the “ancestral alliance” Sinan Ogan 5.17 percent, according to the final results announced by the Supreme Elections Commission.
After the end of the first round, Turkey waited for the position of the third-place voter, before Ogan announced his support for Erdogan in the second round of the presidential elections, which gave Erdogan a strong push before the start of the round.
While Kılıçdaroğlu received new support from the right-wing “Zafar” party in Turkey, in addition to a coalition of six opposition parties, including the “Republican People’s Party” that he leads.
Before the start of the electoral silence, on Saturday, Erdogan delivered a speech at the tomb of former Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and his companions, during a ceremony held on the 63rd anniversary of the Menderes coup on May 27, 1960, by a group of the army, as Menderes and his companions were executed after about 16 months. coup.
Erdogan indicated that democracy in his country suffered a heavy blow on the day of the May 27, 1960 coup, indicating that after 63 years they are eagerly awaiting the announcement to the whole world of the end of the coup era in Turkey, tomorrow, Sunday.
He stressed that the high participation in the elections that his country witnessed on May 14 is a prominent indicator of his people’s defense of democracy, stressing that the elections in his country are conducted in a transparent and fair manner, with an unparalleled participation rate around the world.
Several opinion polls conducted in Turkey before the start of the second round suggested that Erdogan would win, including a recent opinion poll conducted by the Turkish Research Foundation, on Friday, that Erdogan was likely to win 53.7% of the vote in the second round of the presidential elections.
More than 64 million Turks are entitled to vote in 192,000 polling stations in the country, and the number includes more than six million who exercised this right for the first time on May 14.
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