Elections: Reality and Perception

TURKEY - Report 31 Mar 2014 by Atilla Yesilada
It is 17:00 in Turkey and the High Election Council is yet to announce even the preliminary results of the local elections. I still get two vote counts. In the first one, AKP scores 45.8%, compared to CHP’s 28%.The other count shows AKP at 43.3% and CHP at 26.7%.Note that the differences in between these two counts are psychologically important for CHP’s behavior. It is also important to remember that CHP and MHP are challenging the initial poll results in 10 cities. For instance, CHP lost the small Marmara Basin province of Yalova by 1 vote, and Ankara and Antalya (CHP is yet to challenge)...

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