Turkey: Opposition complains about election irregularities Due to US debt dispute: Biden cancels visit to Australia

After Turkey’s parliamentary and presidential elections, the opposition complained about counting irregularities.

Objections have been made to the election authority, deputy chairman of the largest opposition party, CHP, Muharrem Erkek said on Wednesday. “We follow every vote, even if they don’t change the overall result”he said.

In more than 7,000 cases, the CHP logs did not match the data entered at the election authority, Erkek said. In parliamentary elections, irregularities were found in 4,825 ballot boxes – to the detriment of the CHP and its ally Iyi. In the presidential election, there are irregularities in 2,269 ballot boxes.

The pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP objected on Tuesday. More than 2,000 votes were falsely attributed to the ruling alliance in their strongholds, according to the party.

In Turkey’s presidential election on Sunday, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the most votes, but just missed out on an absolute majority. He now has to face the runner-up, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, in a runoff on May 28. According to preliminary data, Erdogan’s government alliance was able to retain the majority in parliament.

International election observers criticized an unfair election campaign and a lack of transparency in voting.

In total, about 64 million people were called to vote in Sunday’s elections, about 3.4 million of them abroad. There were about 200,000 ballot boxes.

(yam/sda/dpa)