2023-05-24 21:14:00
24.05.2023 23:14
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Incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan is considered the favourite
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Abroad, the Turkish presidential election ended at 10 p.m. on Wednesday evening. In Austria, a new record participation was recorded. The day before, with 63,626 votes, the participation in the first round of the election (62,349 votes) was exceeded, according to figures distributed by the Turkish Embassy in Austria. Voter turnout was also higher. By Wednesday evening, 1,839,488 Turks abroad had cast their votes worldwide.
Incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu will face off in the run-off election. The results will be announced after the vote in Turkey on May 28th. About 108,000 Turkish citizens were eligible to vote in Austria. You have been able to vote since Saturday. As in the first round of voting, voting was not only possible in the three consulates general in Vienna, Salzburg and Bregenz, but also in specially set up polling stations in Linz, Graz and Innsbruck.
Erdogan is the favorite in the voting. In the first round on May 14, he was about 4.5 percentage points ahead of the CHP’s Kilicdaroglu, but missed the required absolute majority. Turks abroad voted in the first ballot with 57.70 percent for the incumbent. Kilicdaroglu got almost 40 percent of the votes. According to preliminary figures, almost 72 percent of voters in Austria voted for Erdogan. The incumbent did particularly well in an international comparison.
On Wednesday, Erdogan was satisfied with the result abroad in the first round and the participation so far in the second. He continued to call on his supporters to go to the polls. Turkey will vote on May 28th. Only then will the results from abroad be published.
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