The Vice-party chief, Ali Ihsan Yavuz said. For the rest of the district Büyükçekmece, the ACP demanded, therefore, a cancellation of the election result.

after the announcement of preliminary results of the municipal election on Monday, the ACP had lodged a series of appeals in the case of local sections of the electoral authority YSK. In several districts of Istanbul, a partial recount was recognized in four districts a complete recount.

application in Ankara

rejected in the capital, Ankara, the AKP introduced, in view of their expected defeat applications. There the party but failed with the attempt to achieve a complete recount. The electoral authority YSK rejected a request on Sunday for 13 of the 25 electoral districts in Ankara, the Anadolu news Agency reported.

In Istanbul had claimed both of the ACP candidate, Ex-Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, Ekrem imamoğlu from the opposition CHP after the vote on Sunday, a week ago the victory. The opposition candidate imamoğlu said this Sunday, he also leads in the current Nachauszählung with a lead of at least 16’500 votes.

slap in the face for Erdogan

A loss of Ankara and Istanbul would be for the ACP this was a hard blow, after you and your Islam conservative predecessor party had-ruled the cities for 25 years. The expected defeat in the two largest cities of Turkey is also regarded as a personal reminder for Erdogan, after he had made the vote a kind of Referendum on its own policy.

The Turkish electoral authorities give, regardless. Numerous members of the opposition doubt this, however, because of objections of the pro-Kurdish party HDP against the ballot from the 31. March were not approved. The Istanbul opposition candidate imamoğlu appealed on Sunday to the YSK, to be their “historical responsibility”. (sda)

Created: 08.04.2019, 05:11 PM