President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received 52.10 percent of the vote in the second round of the president run-off election compared to his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu with 47.88 percent.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Turkish nation is the winner in the second round of the presidential election.
Addressing his supporters in Istanbul, Erdogan said that all 85 million of the nation’s citizens won.
With this victory, the door of the “Century of Türkiye” has opened, he emphasised. His speech came after results showed him leading with 52.10 percent of the vote with 98.2 percent of the ballots counted.
Opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu received 47.88 percent.
“Your will has become Türkiye’s unbending, stainless power at the ballot box,” Erdogan added.
More than 60 million people were registered to vote, including 4.9 million first-time voters. A total of 191,885 ballot boxes have been set up for voters in the country.
On May 14 Erdogan’s People’s Alliance won a majority in parliament, while the presidential race headed to a runoff as no candidate won a simple majority or more than 50 percent. Erdogan, however, led with 49.52 percent.
In the runoff, Erdogan will face Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and joint candidate for the six-party opposition Nation Alliance.
“We will win in such a way that all of Türkiye with its 85 million individuals will win. Our nation with all its colours will win, and our democracy, for which we paid a great price, will win,” Erdogan said.