YSK: Presidential election to go to a runoff
The presidential election in Turkey and North Kurdistan is going to a second round, as no candidate could secure the required number of votes in the first round.
Ahmet Yener, Chair of the Supreme Electoral Board (YSK), made a statement concerning yesterday’s presidential election, in which the three rivals, AKP leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and far-right alliance candidate Sinan Oğan and failed to get over 50 percent of the votes.
Yener stated that the presidential election would go to a runoff. The second round will take place on May 28, Sunday.
Yener announced the rates of the votes
Tayyip Erdoğan: 49,51 percent
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu: 44,88 percent
Sinan Oğan: 5,17 percent
