It is the first municipal poll since Turkey approved constitutional reforms in 2017 to create an executive presidency that gave Erdogan wider powers, and follows general elections last year. erdogan
Aware of his party’s potential weakness, Erdogan has campaigned across Turkey every day though he is not standing for election.
It is the first municipal poll since Turks approved constitutional reforms in 2017 to create an executive presidency that gave Erdogan wider powers, and follows general elections last year. “Citizens are suffering because of the economic problems,” Dervis Dikmen, 60, told AFP at an opposition rally in the southern city of Mersin. “Citizens cannot buy anything.”Charges of an unfair vote
The opposition pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party has refused to field candidates in several cities, saying the elections are unfair. Some of its leaders have been jailed on terror charges, accusations they reject. But in Ankara, Mansur Yavas – candidate for the opposition Republican People’s Party CHP and the nationalist Good Party – might have a stronger chance of winning, according to recent polls.
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