The Turkish presidential candidate Kemal Kiliçdaroglu has secured the support of the right-wing nationalist Zafer Partisi. That is remarkable, because that party had actually put forward Sinan Ogan as the ideal presidential candidate. He dropped out after the first round of voting and expressed his support for Kiliçdaroglu’s opponent Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday.
With more than 5 percent of the vote, Ogan finished third in the first round. This means that he has won about 2.77 million voters, about the difference between Erdogan and Kiliçdaroglu.
Ogan’s supporters can be the deciding factor in the second round of voting. Therefore, his endorsement was a great stroke of luck for the incumbent president.
Erdogan won 49.5 percent of the vote in the first round of voting. Kiliçdaroglu got stuck at 44.9 percent.
With the support of Zafer Partisi, Kiliçdaroglu wants to catch up, although the Turkish president has the best credentials to win next Sunday’s election. Zafer Partisi party leader Ümit Özdag calls on his supporters to vote for Erdogan’s rival.
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Last week, Erdogan and Kiliçdaroglu mainly hammered on the approach to migrants
According to Özdag, Kiliçdaroglu has a better plan for deporting migrants than Erdogan. That is an important theme for his party. Ogan just said that Kiliçdaroglu had failed to convince him and that he chooses Erdogan because of his intention to take a tougher approach to problems with migrants and Kurds.
The question is whether voters attach more importance to Özdag’s statement of support or Ogan’s. In the parliamentary election, which was held last Sunday, just like the first round of the presidential election, Zafer Partisi received 2.2 percent of the vote.
2023-05-24 12:31:36
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