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Elections in Turkey today! The end of an era for Erdogan?

2023-05-14 09:36:46Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Elections in Turkey today! The end of an era for Erdogan?
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Turkey is currently experiencing the most ambiguous election race in decades, as the two presidential candidates, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Kemal Kilicdaroglu, are very close in the polls, although they represent two completely opposite worlds.

The current president, 69-year-old Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for more than 20 years and is currently experiencing the biggest political challenge of his career, facing one of the strongest opponents from the opposition.

 What has changed in these years is that for the first time six opposition parties have joined forces for today's presidential and parliamentary elections, choosing opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu as their alliance candidate. The union of opposition forces was triggered by accusations that Turkey has become increasingly authoritarian under President Erdogan, and the opposition seeks to put an obstacle to the country's transformation into a "parliamentary autocracy".

At the same time, the Turkish president appears vulnerable, with Turkey facing a burst of inflation after the severe social and economic shock of twin earthquakes that left 50,000 dead.

In this landscape, any presidential candidate who can secure more than half of the votes (50% plus 1) in today's presidential election will be the absolute winner. Otherwise, the "match" will be moved to the second round two weeks later, on May 28.

Based on the calculations, 64.1 million Turks have the right to vote, inside and outside the country. It should be noted that the Development and Justice Party (AKP) founded by Erdogan has been in power since November 2002 and has governed Turkey since 2003. The result of this is that the new generation, a group of five million voters who exercise their right to vote for the first time in these elections, no other leader has experienced. And that's because Recep Tayyip Erdogan was first prime minister, but then he was elected president in 2014, growing even more.


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