5.17% of the votes for the third place candidate in the first round of voting
Erdogan, 4.6%p difference from the runner-up
On the 28th, Turkiye is likely to win the presidential finals
On the 28th, before the final vote in the Turkish presidential election, Sinan Oan, the leader of the Victory Party, who came third in the first round of voting on the 14th, announced on the 22nd that he would support President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. As a result, it is evaluated that President Erdogan, who has been in power for a long time since 2003, not only solidified his chances of winning the runoff vote, but also laid the foundation for virtually lifelong rule.
According to the Associated Press, CEO Oan held a press conference that day and said, “I decided to support President Erdogan in the final vote. My supporters please vote for him.” He is known to have asked President Erdogan to give him a high-ranking post like vice president in the future.
President Erdogan won 49.5% in the first round of voting, beating Kemal Kultzdaroglu, the leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), who won 44.9%, by 4.6 percentage points. Neither side could win a majority, so it was decided in a runoff vote, and it was a situation where it was important who Oh An supported. Representative Oh An received the support of 5.17% (about 2.8 million votes) in the first round of voting.
Representative Oh An is a far-right proponent of anti-immigration. With his declaration of support, it is highly likely that President Erdogan will easily win the final vote. In the general election held with the first vote on the 14th, the passport coalition led by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) won 323 seats, a majority of the total 600 seats, and it is analyzed that it can affect voter sentiment that does not want the ‘ruling party politics’. comes out Representative Ohan also mentioned that the president’s political party and the parliamentary majority party must be the same as the reason for President Erdogan’s support, in order to demonstrate proper leadership.
However, there are observations that not all voters who supported President Ohan will go to President Erdogan. This means that a significant number of the votes of CEO Ahn Oh may actually be non-partisan groups who are reluctant to both the first and second place candidates.
Analysts are raised that if President Erdogan wins the final victory, the economic situation, such as the fall in the value of the lira, could get worse as he sticks to the existing ‘low interest rate’ policy, which does not raise interest rates even at high inflation. Capital Economics, a British market research firm, predicted that “the lira will be under serious pressure.”
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