The third candidate in the running in Turkey demands Kiliçdaroglu not make concessions to the pro-Kurdish HDP if he wants their support

May 15. (EUROPE PRESS) –

Sinan Ogan, candidate of the Ancestral Alliance for the Presidency of Turkey, has assured that he will hold “consultations” to determine which candidate he would support in case there is a second round between the current president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the opposition leader Kemal Kiliçdaroglu , although he has stressed that he would only support the latter if he does not make concessions to the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

“Today there will be consultations with both parties,” Ogan said after being asked who he would support in the second round, to which Erdogan and Kiliçdaroglu seem headed after neither has achieved more than 50 percent of the votes. “We hope to reach a conclusion,” he said.

Thus, he has reiterated that the HDP “should not be a key party in the elections” and has affirmed that the decision it adopts will have the objective “that there is no chaos”. “We will act responsibly,” he stressed, after the HDP called for a vote for Kiliçdaroglu to remove Erdogan from power, according to the Turkish television channel NTV.

According to the latest data provided by the president of the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK), Ahmet Yener, Erdogan has obtained 49.4 percent of the votes, while Kiliçdaroglu has collected 44.96 percent of their ballots. For his part, Ogan, who was a member of parliament for the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) — an ally of Erdogan — has won 5.2 percent of support.

However, the results are not definitive. Yener explained that at the national level, more than 99 percent of the ballot boxes have already been included in the count, although the foreign vote is still around 84 percent, a front that Erdogan clings to so as not to rule out that he can be proclaimed the winner. without the need for a second round on May 28.