Erdogan dealt stunning blow as Istanbul elects rival candidate - BBG
|- Ekrem Imamoglu wins the redo of the Istanbul mayor’s race by a landslide.
- Imamoglu took 54% of vote, AK party’s Yildirim won 45%: AA.
- Opposition gets more votes than Erdogan ever did in Istanbul.
Bloomberg has reported on the Turkish opposition candidate, Ekrem Imamoglu, winning the redo of the Istanbul mayor’s race by a landslide on Sunday.
Turkish opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu won the redo of the Istanbul mayor’s race by a landslide on Sunday, in a stinging indictment of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s economic policies and his refusal to accept an earlier defeat.
Imamoglu, backed by opposition parties including CHP, won 54% of the vote, and the ruling AK Party’s candidate, former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim captured 45%, according to state media.
The political upstart broadened his margin of victory to nearly 800,000 votes from 14,000 in the March 31 balloting, in a clear sign voters are concerned about the crumbling of Turkey’s democratic foundations and an economy reeling from a spike in consumer prices and unemployment.
the Bloomberg article reported.
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