President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party (AKP) will demand a new vote in Istanbu...
ISTANBUL/ANKARA - President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party will demand a new vote in Istanbul, a senior party official said on Tuesday after its bid was rejected for a citywide recount of March 31 election results that appeared to hand the party defeat.
Since the vote, the AKP has filed a series of requests for recounts in the city. Overnight, the High Election Board rejected a request to recount all votes across 31 of Istanbul’s districts, the party’s representative at the YSK said. “We will file our extraordinary appeal today. We will say that there have been events that directly impacted the outcome of the elections and that we demand the renewal of the elections in Istanbul,” Yavuz said. He later tweeted that the appeal could happen “in coming days”.
Erdogan’s comments, his strongest challenge yet to the election process in Istanbul, briefly drove the lira down and also weighed on Turkish stocks. The lira was steady at 5.6850 to the dollar on Tuesday.In Istanbul, CHP candidate Ekrem Imamoglu called on the YSK to finalize the election results as soon as possible and said the AKP was to blame for the uncertainty surrounding the vote.
The YSK’s decision on the AKP’s appeal for a fresh vote in Istanbul will be final. If rejected, the ongoing recounts across the city will be completed and the results finalised.
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