Turkish presidential election: Erdogans votes are less than half

Erdogan, who has been in power in Turkey for 20 years, has won less than 50%in the presidential election. It is expected that he will face the duel in the second round of voting with competitors Kellechidalolu.

Reuters reported that in the Turkish president and parliament election voting on Sunday (May 14), Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu were not more than half of the votes.

According to the TRT report of the National Broadcasting Corporation of Turkey, more than 96.9%of the voting boxes have been checked. Erdogan's votes obtained were 49.6%, Kellechidalolu was 44.6%, and another candidate Oian (Sinan Ogan only 5.3%of the votes.

Erdogan and Klechidalu Lu both claimed to lead and raised objections to the number of votes.Both warned that the country's polarization was becoming increasingly serious, avoiding premature conclusion of the election results.

Without any candidate to win more than half of the votes, the first two candidates will decide in the second round of voting on May 28.

The pre -election polls showed that the competition of the presidential election was very fierce, but Klesacandalolo, who led the six -party league, was slightly leading. The two polls last Friday showed that his support rate exceeded 50%of the support rate.threshold.

Turkish media believes that the issues that have attracted much attention from voters in this election include economic issues, earthquake disasters, and Syrian refugee issues in Turkey.

According to data from the Turkish Supreme Election Commission, about 64.1 million registered voters in Turkey, of which about 3.4 million are registered voters.Overseas voting has ended on May 9.The formal votes are expected to be announced by the Supreme Election Committee on May 19.

Turkish president has a term of five years, and the election uses a two -wheeled vote system direct election.In the first round of voting, if no candidate received more than half of the votes, the first two candidates participated in the second round.The second round of voting will be held on the 28th of this month.The proportion representative system for the Earth Council election, the threshold for the voting rate of the party and the party and the party and the party groups is 7%.