Polls body orders Istanbul vote rerun
Supporters of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu cheering as they wait for him during a protest against the rerun of the city’s elections yesterday. According to reports, the Turkish Electoral Commission has ordered a repeat of the mayoral election in Istanbul. – EPA pic, May 7, 2019.
TURKEY’S top election body ordered a re-run of Istanbul’s mayoral election yesterday after the party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan complained about its shock defeat in the vote, the state news agency reported. The winner of the election, Ekrem Imamoglu of the main opposition Republican People’s Party , said it was a “treacherous decision” and vowed to fight on.
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