Turkey: Local elections across the nation are indicating a defeat for Erdogan
Voting took place this Sunday in Turkey for the elections of city councils, provincial councils and mayors. An important consultation which involved all Turkish citizens and one million and 32 thousand voters who went to the polls for the first time. 81 provinces, 973 districts and 390 cities, as well as all the smaller centres, saw their bodies renewed.
With now more than 50% of the votes stripped, the trends are showing themselves clearly, and they are not at all positive for President Erdogan and his AKP. Here's what the provinces look like right now:
The opposition party CHP is taking over the two main cities, Ankara, the capital, and Istanbul. All the most populated areas fell into the hands of the left-wing CHP party, while AKP remained ahead in the more rural inland areas, while in the south-eastern areas the democratic party managed to secure some regions.
If the final results confirmed the partial counting, now over 50 and with notable advantages for the CHP in the main cities, there would be a disavowal of the pro-Erdogan result of the last political elections. A situation that arises from the difficult economic trend, marked by skyrocketing interest rates that are unable to stop the devaluation of the Lire and an inflation that now reaches 67%.
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