The opposition to Erdogan achieves a resounding victory in the mayoral elections of Istanbul

The opposition candidate to Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Istanbul mayoral elections has repeated the victory he had already obtained in the last elections on March 31, which were then annulled by the Turkish regime. And not only that, but Imamoglu has managed to increase its advantage over the official candidate, Yildirim. The candidate of the Republican People’s Party, Ekrem Imamoglu, repeated victory in the municipal elections of Istanbul, which were held again this Sunday, 23 of June. According to the first data released by CNN Turk, the opposition Imamoglu has achieved victory with 53.6% of the votes, with a wide advantage over the 45.4% achieved by Binali Yildirim. Yildirim, member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) had been president of the country and was Erdogan’s candidate for the mayor of Istanbul, considered key to the regime. Istanbul, with its ten million inhabitants, represents a third of Turkey’s GDP, and Erdogan himself was already a ruler of the Turkish city in his day, the opponent went from a 0.2% advantage in the unrecognized elections to a Wide 9% lead over Yildirim, who has already acknowledged defeat Yildirim himself appeared early to congratulate the winner of the election. The Islamist candidate soon recognized the results this time: “I congratulate you and wish you success. You will have my cooperation in the work you undertake for the benefit of the people of Istanbul, “said Yildirim.” As I said in the morning, elections are synonymous with democracy. These elections have shown that democracy works perfectly in Turkey, “he added.These nine points of difference represent a great boost in favor of the opposition candidate, whose victory, the unrecognized one, in the last elections in March was produced by just 14,000 votes, a 0.2% advantage in the vote. The calm with which this electoral day has passed in the de facto economic capital in Turkey -the politics is Ankara-, in which large queues have been seen in several polling stations, a sign of the large influx to the polls and the expectation that it raised Quote.