Polling stations opened this Sunday at 08:00 (06:00 in Lisbon) in Turkey for an unprecedented second round of presidential elections between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
Erdogan, a conservative Islamist in power since 2017, won 49.5% of the vote in the first round against 44.9% for Kilicdaroglu, a centre-left and secularist who contested the official results.
After the alliance around Erdogan and led by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) secured a new absolute majority in parliament in the first round of elections on May 14, the strategy of the two rivals focused on trying to secure 5.2% of the vote. that the first round considered Sinan Ogan, the third presidential candidate to deliver a scathing anti-immigration speech.
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Source: CM Jornal
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