2023-05-17 17:26:37
Türkiye
Between the two rounds, the opposition wants to toughen up the tone against Erdogan
In order to make up for the gap that separates him from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu has decided to react in view of the second round of the presidential election on May 28. He wants a more offensive strategy.
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Kemal Kilicdaroglu seems to have purged part of his team and will hand over the reins of his campaign to the very popular CHP mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu.
Eleven days and some catching up to do: the Turkish opposition, which narrowly missed being beaten in the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, wants to raise its voice in an attempt to dislodge Recep Tayyip Erdogan from power on May 28. Its candidate, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP, social democrat), was to meet on Wednesday with the five other leaders of the Turkish opposition alliance, in order to define a more offensive strategy.
According to the Turkish press, he purged part of his team and will entrust the reins of his campaign to the very popular CHP mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, and to Canan Kaftancioglu, kingpin of the victory of the previous one in Istanbul, in 2019 , the worst electoral setback for the head of state since he became prime minister in 2003.
Comfortable lead for Erdogan
Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, a 74-year-old former senior civil servant, had so far led a very collegial campaign, against President Erdogan, and developed his vision almost every evening in short videos posted on social networks, ignoring most of the attacks of the head of state. This strategy seemed to work, as the polls showed him in good shape.
But Sunday’s results had the effect of a cold shower. At the end of the vote count, President Erdogan has a comfortable lead of more than 2.5 million votes over his opponent, with 49.5% of the votes cast, against 44.9 percent. The only consolation: the opposition has managed for the first time to force the “Reis” to a waiver.
“I am the!”
“I am the! I will fight until the end, I swear! launched Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, Monday, in a video, face unusually closed, tapping three times on his desk with the palm of his right hand. “We will win for sure!” he hammered Wednesday, in a new video showing him standing, with a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic, in commander’s clothes.
“We will not leave this country to those who regard women as objects. We will not leave this country to a fake world leader who bows to Russia,” he said. “We will not abandon this country to a mentality that has let in ten million refugees,” he also declared in a harsher tone than usual, like an appeal to the electorate. nationalist.
“We will not leave this country to those who regard women as objects. We will not leave this country to a fake world leader who bows to Russia.”
Kemal Kilicdaroglu
For the two presidential finalists, one of the challenges between the two rounds will indeed be to seduce the 2.8 million voters who voted for the ultranationalist candidate Sinan Ogan during the first. The third presidential man should announce this week if he supports one of the two finalists.
(AFP)
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