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2023 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Presidential Campaign
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan began his candidate for the 2023 Turkish presidential election, Presidential elections 2023 in April 2022. Erdoğan was the candidate of the People's Alliance (Turkey), People's Alliance consisting of the Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Erdogan and his rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu both failed to secure a majority in the first round on 14 May and the election went to a run-off for the first time in Turkish history. On 28 May Erdogan won the election securing 52.18 percent of the vote and claimed victory after 99.4% of the votes were counted in the second round as the Supreme Election Council (Turkey), Supreme Election Council declared Erdoğan as mathematically elected. Background In President of Turkey, Turkey Presidents are subject to a limit of two 5-year terms. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan supporters contend that the Turkish presidency has assumed a new rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Turkish Presidential Election
Turkish presidential elections, Presidential elections were held in Turkey in May 2023, alongside 2023 Turkish parliamentary election, parliamentary elections, to elect a President of Turkey, president for a term of five years. Dubbed the most important election of 2023, the presidential election went to a Two-round system, run-off for the first time in Turkish history. The election had originally been scheduled to take place on 18 June, but the government moved them forward by a month to avoid coinciding with the university exams, the Hajj, Hajj pilgrimage and the start of the summer vacation, summer holidays. It is estimated that a total of 64 million voters had the right to cast their votes in elections, 60.9 million in Turkey and 3.2 million abroad. Incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party (AK Party) ran for re-election as the joint candidate of the People's Alliance (Turkey), Peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
