Turkey Presidential Election 2019
Turkish president recep tayyip erdogan s ak party is contesting the slim opposition victory in the country s biggest city istanbul.
Turkey presidential election 2019. Turkish leader recep tayyip erdogan won a fresh mandate with sweeping new powers in a double victory in parliamentary and presidential elections last summer. Now less than a year into his. Sunday s municipal elections also delivered opposition chp wins.
He cast some of his ruling party s opponents as traitors in. Parliamentary elections took place to elect 600 members of parliament to the grand national assembly of turkey. Turkey is scheduled to have local elections in march 2019 and parliamentary and presidential elections simultaneously in november that year and a neck and neck race is expected in the presidential election.
Opposition chp supporters celebrated in istanbul the party of turkey s president recep tayyip erdogan has lost control of the capital ankara in local elections in a blow to his 16 year rule. Originally due on 3 november 2019 president recep tayyip erdoğan announced on 18 april 2018 that the vote was being brought forward. In turkey s march 31 local elections the opposition parties particularly the center left republican people s party chp and the informal alliance it formed with a newly founded right wing party.
Ankara reuters turkey s nationalist opposition said on monday it would back president tayyip erdogan in the 2019 election signaling continued right wing support crucial to his narrow victory. Ahead of local elections throughout his country last weekend turkish president recep tayyip erdogan resorted to his usual tactics.