Turkey’s main opposition CHP seeks to cancel Istanbul district and local council as well as 2018 presidential election results
The picture taken on April 22, 2019 shows head office of Turkey's Supreme Election Council in Ankara.
The cancellation of Istanbul poll results came after weeks of appeals by the governing Justice and Development Party and opposition Nationalist Movement Party . They cited irregularities and contradictions with the country's election law. He said votes for local officials and councils, submitted in the same envelopes as the votes for the mayor, should also be cancelled since the mayoral vote is being held again.
"If you say, 'There were organised irregularities in the local elections in Istanbul and there are doubts [on the results, since] people who are not civil servants served on ballot boxes,' the same thing happened on June 24. So, if something really did take place, it did so on June 24. "In its ruling, the YSK cited irregularities in the appointment of polling station officials.
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