Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has ousted the ruling AK Party (AKP) from governing the capital city Ankara for the first time in 25 years, according to Sunday’s unofficial polls result.
Mansur Yavas, the candidate for the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and IYI (Good) Party, won the March 31 local elections in Ankara with approximately two percent ahead of AKP candidate Mehmet Ozhaseki.
Winning the 49,75 percent of the ballots, Yavas has become the new mayor of the Turkish capital. AKP which had been ruling the city since 1994, has conceded it after 25 years in the race with 47,76 percent of the vote.
Allying with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) falls short for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP.
Erdogan has dominated Turkish politics since 2002 when he came to power, describing the latest polls after a 16 year-long-rule as a “matter of survival” for Turkey.
Struggling with economic recession and rate fluctuation, Erdogan’s government has gone away empty-handed at the end of the voting. The defeat has come following a months-long aggressive campaign during which the Turkish President labelled opposition parties as “terrorists or pro-terror” and instituted government-oriented media censorship over the opposition parties’ rallies.
CHP’s Yavas served as the mayor of Ankara’s Beypazari district twice between 1999 and 2009. He was nominated as Ankara mayor by MHP in 2009 when the nationalist party was challenging AKP and lost the race.
In 2014, Yavas, as the mayoral candidate of CHP, lost against the AKP’s Melih Gokcek, amid election fraud allegations.
Gokcek was forced to resign in 2017 by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an effort to dispose of “mental fatigue” and to renew his crew.
On the eve of the March 31 elections, an Ankara prosecutor signed an indictment and accused Mansur Yavas of fraud and forgery, regarding his duty as a lawyer 10 years ago. Yavas denies all allegations and said the defendant who sued him had already been prosecuted on charges of forgery, fraud and child abuse.
On March 20, Erdogan threatened Yavas for not “letting” him serve as a mayor if he was elected, signaling a possible conviction.
“We will not hand Ankara over to a random person, to someone who forged signatures on cheques. We want Ankara to continue to be governed by good people,” he vowed.
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