Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the chief rival to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, makes claims in advance of presidential poll on Sunday
Turkey’s leading opposition candidate has accused Russia of election interference days before the country’s most consequential vote in a generation.
Current polling suggests a tight vote in the presidential election, where one candidate must secure more than 51% to win outright, or the race will go to a runoff two weeks later.Erdoğan, who previously lashed out at the US ambassador Jeff Flake for publicly meeting with Kılıçdaroğlu, has declared that “Turkey will give a message to the west with this election.
“I believe this election will set an example, not just for Turkey but for the whole world. For the first time, an authoritarian regime will be taken out by democracy,” she said. “If we succeed, it will set an example for other countries struggling for their own democracies.” “We do not trust the supreme election council, but we took every precaution,” Kılıçdaroğlu said during a recent interview, describing how the CHP and their partners in opposition assign poll watchers to every ballot box, and will conduct a parallel count on election day to ensure a fair vote. “Despite it all, we will win,” he said.
The vote for president is expected to be close, where even a difference of a few percentage points could affect which candidate can claim the vote was fair and provides a clear mandate or whether it goes to a runoff two weeks later.
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