The Supreme Electoral Council announced that Erdoğan will face Kilicdaroglu in a run-off on May 28

Another few days of suspense. The country’s Supreme Election Board announced on Monday (May 15) that Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu will face each other in the second round of the presidential elections on May 28. The Turkish president won 49.51% of the vote against 44.88% for his center-left rival in the elections held on Sunday, said council speaker Ahmet Yener during a press conference.

The participation rate was 88.92% in Turkey and 55.69% abroad, according to the council figures reported by the news agency. Anatolia. The outcome of the second round looks more than uncertain for the opposition, despite their repeated confidence in their victory.

It will depend in part on a third man, the ultra-nationalist Sinan Ogan, who won 5.2% of the vote in the first round and has yet to announce whether he will support one of the candidates. The impact of the economic crisis and the devastating earthquake of February 6, which killed at least 50,000 people, did not have the effects that analysts envisioned. However, the government’s response, considered belated, angered many of the survivors. But this sentiment was not reflected at the polls, as the hard-hit provinces renewed their confidence in the president, who promised to rebuild 650,000 homes in the affected areas as soon as possible.