Both the president of Türkiye, the Islamist Recep Tayyip erdoğanas the opposition that aspires to end their 20 years in power, have promised their supporters that They will monitor the counting of the votes. for the parliamentary and presidential elections that have been held today.
“Voting has concluded, thank God, across the country in a manner consistent with our democracy. Now, as always, is the time to firmly protect the ballot box. Continue to protect the will of our nation until the results are final,” Erdogan said on Twitter.
For his part, Canan Kaftancioglu, the president in Istanbul of the social democratic party CHP, the main opposition party, has assured that her party will closely monitor the counting of the votes. “Don’t worry about us. We will follow the whole process. And we will inform you from time to time, “he has promised his followers.
[Termina la votación en las elecciones en Turquía: récord de asistencia con un 90% de participación]
The CHP has some 300,000 militants and supporters to follow the scrutiny in all the polling stations in the country to ensure the cleanliness of the process.
The electoral process in Turkey, monitored by hundreds of thousands of volunteers and by international observersIt is solid and difficult to manipulate.
The latest polls predict a close victory of opposition leaderthe social democrat Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Erdogan, although it is possible that neither of them will achieve an absolute majority in this first round of the presidential elections that would avoid a second round in two weeks.
In the parliamentary elections, the polls see it as unlikely that both the coalition of Erdogan’s party, the Islamist akpas the opposition alliance of six parties around the CHP achieve an absolute majority, so that the seats of the leftist party HDP could be decisive.
