ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party said Tuesday it wants the Istanbul mayoral election to be repeated after the Supreme Electoral Council rejected a demand for a recount of all ballots cast in the city.
The AKP had appealed after results showed its Istanbul candidate narrowly lost in last week’s local election in what would be a major setback for the party after a decade and a half in power. “We will take the path of extraordinary appeal... We will say that we want the election in Istanbul to be repeated,” the AKP’s deputy chairman Ali Ihsan Yavuz told reporters in Ankara. Electoral authorities would have to decide whether the AKP has a case for a rerun of the Istanbul ballot after a very tight race for the city’s mayor. Former prime minister Binali Yildirim was the AKP’s candidate against the main opposition CHP’s Ekrem Imamoglu, an ex-mayor of one of Istanbul’s districts.
Imamoglu beat Yildirim by around 28,000 votes according to the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) last week but after a recount of nulled votes, the difference between them narrowed. The AKP earlier Tuesday said the difference between Imamoglu and Yildirim was now 14,604 ballots, while the latest number from the CHP was at 14,463.
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