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Ankara: Turkish President Erdogan faces the toughest election of his political career. No one, including incumbent President Erdogan, got the 50% required for a majority in Turkey’s general election. Following this, the second phase of elections will be held in Turkey on the 28th.
69-year-old Tayyip Erdogan has ruled Turkey since 2003. He was the prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014, and in 2014 he abolished the post and made the presidency the supreme power of the country. Since then he has been ruling the country as the president of Turkey until now.
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In this situation, on February 6, more than 50,000 people died due to the successive earthquakes on the Turkey-Syria border. Millions of people lost their homes. During this earthquake, the people were very dissatisfied with President Erdoğan for not speeding up the rescue work properly. There was a popular backlash against Erdogan economically as well.
After that, all the opposition parties came together against the Turkish President Erdogan and chose Kemal Klikdaroglu, a member of the Republican People’s Party, known as the Gandhi of Turkey, as the general candidate of the opposition party.
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Turkey’s presidential election was held yesterday (May 15) amid great tension in this environment. President Erdoğan got 49.6% of the votes, Kemal Kilicdaroğlu got 44.7% of the votes, and the nationalist candidate Sina Ogan got 5.2% of the votes.
A majority is 50% of the vote in an election, according to Turkish politics. Erdoğan narrowly missed out on a majority, with just 0.4% of the vote in that category. Following this, the next round of elections will be held in Turkey on May 28.
Speaking about the election, Erdogan said, “These votes show that the nation has faith in me. “We will win the elections on May 28 and achieve a historic victory,” he said.
