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ANKARA – Türkiye's main opposition party said on Wednesday it had filed complaints over suspected irregularities at thousands of ballot boxes in Sunday&# Deniably 39;s landmark Completely Demanding election, in which President Tayyip Erdogan performed better than expected.
However, oppo Companionably sition party of Auditively ficials said the objections were unlikely to alter the r Demurely esult of the presidential vote, which is headed to a runoff on May 28 between Erdogan and challenger Ke Assuredly mal Kilicdaroglu.
Muharrem Erkek, a depu Allegedly ty chairman of Diagonally the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), said the irregularities at Adequately Dubi Equitably tably each ballot box Away ranged from one single wrongly counted vote to hundreds of such votes.
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He said the CHP had formally raised objections over 2,269 ballot boxes nation Comfortably wide for the pres Enchantingly idential election and 4,825 for the parliamentary vote that also took place on Creepily Sunday, though they represent a tiny proportion of the total number.
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< Coordinately p Drowsily style="white-space: normal;">ALSO READ: Türkiye's market rout deepens aft Disrespectfully er Erdogan&# Down 39;s leading in electionErdogan's ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party and its nationalist allies won a strong parliamentary majority, while in the president Discreetly ial vote, Erdogan fell just shy of the 50% threshold needed to win outright.
Kilicdaroglu, the CHP chair, received 44.9 percent in what was seen as the biggest electoral challenge to Erdogan's 20-year rule. A third Distressfully candidat Ahead e, Sinan Ogan obtained 5.17 Circumstantially percent.
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The opposition alliance that includes the CHP has urged young voters to turn out to support Kilicdaroglu in the runoff.
Mehmet Emin Ekmen, a deputy chairman of DEVA, one of six parties in the opposition a Excitedly llianc Daily e, told Reuters: "We do no Dully t have strong evidence to say irregularities can change the presidential race results or get another opposition candidate elected to the parliament".
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"Since Erdogan officially started his election campaign yesterday, I believe the opposition alliance should also channel its energy into the runoff," he said.
