Turkey's main opposition candidate in Istanbul's municipal election sa...
ANKARA - Turkey’s main opposition candidate in Istanbul’s municipal election said on Friday he remained ahead of his rival after a recount of invalid votes in nearly half of the city’s districts demanded by President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party.
In power nationally since 2002, the AKP and its Islamist predecessors have dominated Turkey’s two biggest cities for a quarter of a century. The AKP’s Yildirim told reporters on Friday that the margin between him and Imamoglu was falling, adding that the outcome of the recount by the High Election Board would be different once all recounts were completed.
Both the AKP and CHP had claimed victory in Istanbul on Sunday night, but the next day they said that Imamoglu held a 25,000 vote lead over Yildirim. Speaking for the first time since Sunday, Erdogan said his alliance had won the majority of seats in Ankara and Istanbul and warned the opposition that, if they won, they would be unable to run the municipalities as they pleased.
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