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Turkey will elect a new president and parliament on Sunday (7 a.m. to 4 p.m. CEST). About 64 million eligible voters are called to vote. Islamist conservative head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in power for 20 years – first as prime minister and since 2014 as president – could be voted out of office. His challenger, Social Democrat Kemal Kilicdaroglu, is ahead of Erdogan in the polls with an alliance of six opposition parties.
The opposition wants to break with Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian course if the elections are won. Kilicdaroglu has promised a return to democracy if he wants to release political prisoners after a change of power. Whoever receives more than 50 percent of the vote on the first ballot becomes the new president. If none of the candidates can do this, the top two candidates will compete against each other in a second round on May 28.
(AFP)
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