After a week of relative silence, Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that “there has been theft at the ballot box”
EKREM IMAMOGLU could use a few hours of rest. In the wake of his unexpected win in the Istanbul mayoral race on March 31st, Mr Imamoglu says he did not sleep for three consecutive days, after the ruling Justice and Development party refused to concede and the election board ordered a recount of some 300,000 apparently invalid votes. Shortly after midnight on April 9th, the opposition’s new star cleared a big hurdle when the board denied AK’s request for a full recount.
Whether the election board will agree, and whether it will be able to resist pressure from the Turkish leader, remains to be seen. Yet any move by the government to strong-arm the board into cancelling the Istanbul vote risks destroying one of the last remaining pillars of Turkey’s democracy. “After this, how much trust would the opposition have in the political system?” asks Galip Dalay, a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford.
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