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Turkeys main opposition party said on Wednesday it had filed complaints over suspected irregularities at thousands of ballot boxes in Sundays landmark election, in which President Tayyip Erdogan performed better than expected...
Muharrem Erkek, a deputy chairman of the secularist Republican Peoples Party (CHP), said the irregularities at each ballot box ranged from one single wrongly counted vote to hundreds of such votes...
He said the CHP had formally raised objections over 2,269 ballot boxes nationwide for the presidential election and 4,825 for the parliamentary vote that also took place on Sunday...
The deadline for challenging the results of the presidential election expired on Monday, while that for the parliamentary vote expired on Tuesday, Erkek said, adding that the CHP had filed all its appeals within these timeframes...
The opposition alliance that includes the CHP has appealed to young voters, in particular, to turn out to support Kilicdaroglu in the runoff, saying the first round showed that Erdogan had lost the vote of confidence he had sought...
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