The second round of the presidential elections in Turkey, in its 28th session, kicked off at 8:00 am, Sunday, and voting will continue until 5: PM this evening, local time.
The Turkish President is competing for the presidency, the candidate of the People’s Alliance, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who aspires to win a second and final term after the country’s transition to the presidential system, and the candidate of the Nation Alliance, the leader of the Republican People’s Party, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu.
Turkish voters will cast their votes in more than 191 thousand polling stations throughout Turkey to elect a president for the country for a period of 5 years, where 60 million 697 thousand and 843 voters are entitled to cast their votes out of Turkey’s total population of 85 million.
The first round of the elections, which took place on the fourteenth of this month, and witnessed the participation of 89 % of the number of those eligible to vote, was not decided after the three competitors, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, and the head of the Grandfathers’ Alliance, Sinan Ogan, failed to achieve the percentage required to win the presidential position / 50 +1 / where Erdogan got 49.52 %, Kilicdaroglu 44.88 %, and Sinan Ogan 5.20 % of the total vote, which necessitated a second round to resolve the situation.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency