President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political party has succeeded in its bid to nullify the results of the March 31 elections and hold new ones after the political opposition won by a slim margin.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political party has succeeded in its bid to nullify the results of Istanbul’s March 31 elections and hold a redo after the political opposition won by a slim margin, a move criticized as an attack on democracy.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a press conference on April 8, 2019. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The country’s High Election Board said that new elections would be held on June 23 because some of the candidates for mayor were not civil servants."We see this decision as the best step that will strengthen our will to solve problems within the framework of democracy and law," Erdogan said in a speech on Monday. But Schenkkan argues that this justification for rerunning the mayoral elections is a contradiction.
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