CHP keeps its hope high, as many ballot boxes are still closed

CHP's Tezcan warned on possible second round as 40 million votes still to be counted

CHP (Republican People's Party) spokesman Bülent Tezcan reacted to the election results given by the AKP media, and warned that no official statement by the Supreme Elections Board (YSK) has been made so far. 

Tezcan added that, according to the CHP own vote counting,  the Presidential elections will go to a second round.

CHP Bülent Tezcan spoke to journalists for the second time at the party's headquarters.
Tezcan warned that "it appears that someone has begun celebrating a bit too early. According to our figures, we will have a second round in the presidential elections."

Reminding that the State Anadolu Agency had said that " 93.5 percent of the ballot boxes had been opened" Tezcan countered that "indeed it turns out that  according to our observers on the field, at least half of the boxes has yet to be opened.

This means - he added - that 18 million 973 thousand 242 votes have been counted by the CHP system. According to these, our candidate, Muharrem İnce, has scored 33.65 percent of the votes will AKP Recep Tayyip Erdogan scored 51.77 percent. A total of 39 percent of the polls were opened but there are around 40 million votes still to count."

Tezcan added that with 40 million votes still to count, "nobody really should feel confident to declare himself President of the Republic."

The CHP spokesman then called on the party's observers to stay at polling stations until counting operations have ended. "Hopefully in Turkey - he said - a second round will be celebrated on 8 July."