After 25 years under the Islamic-conservative management is governed by the Turkish capital of Ankara, for the first time from the Opposition. Mansur Yavas of the center-left party, CHP, resigned on Monday from his office as mayor of Ankara. Appeals to the Islamic-conservative government party AKP against the election results in the capital had rejected the electoral Commission before. Yavas said, justice will stand in the foreground of his term of office.
Ankara and Istanbul were 25 years of Islamic-conservative citizens of ruled masters – 15 of them from the ACP. In the municipal elections on may 31. March received the Opposition to the current state in Istanbul the most number of votes.
In the city on the Bosphorus. the opposition candidate Ekrem imamoğlu, according to preliminary results, but only a wafer-thin lead over former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim The ACP had requested on Sunday at the High election Commission (YSK) for a recount in the metropolis. According to the Deputy party Chairman Ali Ihsan Yavuz, the application for all the districts, except one, in which the ACP called for a cancellation of the election result. The decision of the YSK to the objections of the ACP.
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after the announcement of the preliminary results of the ACP had obtained in the case of local election authorities for a recount in some districts of Istanbul. In these ongoing counts imamoğlu leads with around 16,000 votes against Yildirim. (dpa)
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