Erdogan will face Kiliçdaroglu in a runoff on May 28, the Supreme Electoral Council announces

A few more days of suspense. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his opponent Kemal Kiliçdaroglu will face each other in a second round of the presidential election on May 28, the country’s Supreme Electoral Council announced on Monday (May 15). The Turkish president won 49.51% of the vote, against 44.88% for his center-left competitor in elections held on Sunday, said the President of the Council, Ahmet Yener, during a press conference.

Turnout stands at 88.92% in Turkey and 55.69% abroad, according to council figures reported by the news agency. Anadolu. The outcome of the second round looks more than uncertain for the opposition, despite their repeated confidence in their victory.

It will partly depend on a third man, the ultranationalist Sinan Ogan, who won 5.2% of the vote in the first round, and has not yet announced whether he would support one of the two candidates. The impact of the economic crisis and the devastating earthquake of February 6, which claimed at least 50,000 lives, did not have the effects envisaged by analysts. The government’s response, deemed late, had nevertheless aroused the anger of many survivors. But this feeling was not reflected at the polls, the heavily affected provinces having massively renewed their confidence in the president, who promised to rebuild 650,000 homes in the affected areas as quickly as possible.