What will Tayyip Erdogan Do After Another Victory?

 Turkey: What will Tayyip Erdogan do after another victory?

Erdogan is seen as the front-runner ahead of the May 28 presidential election.

The second phase of the presidential election in Turkey will begin on May 28 as no candidate could get the required 50 percent of the votes in the first phase of the election on May 14.

The contest between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and joint opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu will be the first such contest in the country's political history.


Erdogan is widely seen as the front-runner in the contest, having narrowly missed out on the presidency in the first round.

With Erdogan's control of most state resources and media outlets down by about five percent, Kılıçdaroğlu faces an uphill battle.

Since May 14, he has tried to change the political landscape by changing the tone of his rhetoric, when ultra-nationalist candidate Sinan Ogun won more than five percent of the vote in the first round.

Who has more enthusiasm?

Despite major economic problems and devastating earthquakes in February, Erdoğan managed to get 49.51 percent of the vote in the first round, compared to 44.88 percent for Kalıçdaroğlu, according to preliminary results.


The result contradicted many pre-election opinion polls, some of which had shown Kilicdaroglu ahead of President Erdogan.

Kilicdaroglu has been widely regarded as less ambitious, although he has brought together six parties in the opposition National Alliance and has received support from top Kurdish politicians.

Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told the pro-government news channel A Haber that the runoff would be "easy" and that he did not think the gap of about 2.5 million votes between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu would close.

However, Erdogan told his supporters not to sit back from China and to continue campaigning until May 28 "with the same determination". The 322-seat majority in the 600-seat legislature by Erdogan's ruling People's Alliance in parliamentary elections could play a key role in influencing voters' electoral preferences.


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