Sun 23 June 2019:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cast his vote in the re-run of Istanbul’s mayoral election on Sunday. “Istanbulites will make the best choice for the city,” Erdoğan said. Polling started on Sunday for Turkey’s re-run local elections to elect a new mayor for Istanbul. Over 10.5 million people are eligible to cast their ballots.
Voting started at 8.00 a.m local time (0500GMT) and will continue through 5.00 p.m. local time (1400GMT) in 31,342 ballot boxes across 39 districts of Istanbul. Binali Yıldırım, candidate of the ruling Justice and Development (AK), and Ekrem İmamoğlu of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), will vie to run the metropolitan municipality of Turkey’s most populous city after a previous vote on March 31 was annulled by the country’s top election council last month. Millions of Turkish voters cast their votes nationwide on March 31 in local elections to choose mayors, city council members, mukhtars (neighborhood officials), and members of elder councils for the next five years. On March 31, the turnout was 83.88%, six percentage points lower than the previous local elections of March 30, 2014.
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