It's officially over Procedure in Municipal Elections in Turkey, with First official results It is expected to be announced in the next few hours.
Polling stations in eastern Turkey opened for the first time at 07:00 (local and Greek time) for municipal elections held across the country today, AFP reporters found in Turkey's largest Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.
However, the process “Blacked Out” Bloody Episodes Two people died in Barsa and Diyarbakir
Voting began an hour later in major cities like Ankara and Istanbul, as well as in the western part of the country. Also, there is a lot of interest in them, especially in Istanbul Erdogan's big bet is at stake Years later to recover the lost municipality to Ekrem Imamoglu.
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Erdogan's “life goal”.
The latter won the 2019 election to take over the Istanbul Municipality from the ruling Justice and Development Party after 25 years. For Erdoğan, the redemption of Istanbul MunicipalityHe started entering politics It became a life goal ever since.
Recent polls show that The tide opened in favor of Imamoglu Against Erdogan's handpicked Murad Kurim, however, the battle is far from over.
Erdogan took the brunt of the election campaign personally. He organized six pre-election rallies in Istanbul in the last 48 hours alone. His ministers did the same when they “ploughed” Istanbul in the last week before the election, although it led to the blackout of Murad Kurum, who was not particularly attractive anyway.
Hours before the polls began, Erdogan, along with Kurum, in a last-ditch effort to woo Islamist voters, He prayed Saturday night at Hagia Sophia and visited the Ismail Agha Islamic Brotherhood, an informal religious organization with political influence.
How the results could affect Erdogan
The result of today's municipal corporation election is over To further strengthen President Erdogan's control It would pave the way for a constitutional amendment that would strengthen the political system and its powers. This would give him access to the vast power, political and economic power of Constantinople to strengthen his power.
Istanbul, with its official population of 16 million, perhaps more than 20 million, is larger in population than 131 countries in the world, produces 30 to 40% of Turkey's GDP, manages a large budget and The country's most expensive real estate houses “flats”.
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However, if he did not succeed in reclaiming the municipality of Constantinople, The political landscape in Turkey is changing It opens the way for incumbent Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu to become opposition leader, if infighting within his affiliate Republican People's Party (CHP) allows.
Throughout his tenure and election campaign, Imamoglu had to deal with the entire government apparatus and other opposition parties. The disparate coalition of opposition parties in last year's presidential election was disbanded in its constituent parts and fragmented for this election.
Just before the restrictions on election campaigning began, Ekrem Imamoglu appealed to voters of all opposition parties to go to the polls with a supra-partisan approach “for a strong alliance of people and conscience.”