Turkey itself
Between the two rounds, the opposition wants to strengthen its anti-Erdogan tone
Kemal Klisadaroglu has decided to react in view of the second phase of the presidential election on May 28, to close the gap that separates him from Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He prefers a more offensive strategy.
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Kemal Kilicdaroglu appears to have scrapped part of his team and will hand over the reigns of his campaign to Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s most popular CHP mayor.
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Eleven days and counting: The Turkish opposition, narrowly missing out on defeat in the first round of Sunday’s presidential election, wants to raise its voice in an attempt to oust Recep Tayyip Erdogan from power on May 28. Its candidate, Kemal Kilidaroglu, leader of the Republican Party (CHP, Social Democrat), was due to meet the five other leaders of the Turkish opposition coalition on Wednesday.
According to the Turkish press, he will remove part of his team and hand over the control of his campaign to Ekrem Imamoglu, the most popular CHP mayor of Istanbul, and Kanan Kaftancioglu, the king of the previous victory in Istanbul in 2019. , the worst electoral setback for a head of state since taking office as prime minister in 2003.
A comfortable lead for Erdogan
Kemal Kilicadaroglu, a 74-year-old former senior civil servant, has so far led a concerted campaign against President Erdogan and has ignored most of the head-on attacks, developing his vision almost every evening in short videos posted on social networks. of the state. The strategy seemed to be working, as polls showed him in good shape.
But Sunday’s results had the effect of a cold shower. At the end of the vote counting, President Erdoğan had 2.5 million more votes than his opponent, with 49.5% against 44.9%. The only consolation: the opposition managed to force the dismissal of “Reese” for the first time.
“it’s me!”
“It’s me! I will fight to the end, I promise!” Kemal Kilicdaroglu said in a video on Monday, his face unusually covered and tapping his right hand three times on his desk. In the video, he hit Wednesday.
“We will not surrender this country to those who treat women as objects. We will not surrender this country to a fake world leader who bows down to Russia,” he said. “We will not abandon this country to the mindset of letting in ten million refugees,” he declared in a more stern tone than usual, as if it were a plea to voters.
“We will not surrender this country to those who treat women as objects. “We will not surrender this country to a fake world leader who bows down to Russia.”
Kemal Kilicdaroglu
For the two presidential finalists, one of the challenges between the two rounds is to win over the 2.8 million voters who voted for the ultranationalist Sinan Ogan in the first round. A third president must announce this week if he supports one of the two finalists.
(AFP)
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