CHP calls on Istanbul to redress injustice in re-vote

CHP calls on Istanbul to redress injustice in re-vote

Turkey's main opposition party leader says Istanbul candidate faced injustice after March 31 local elections

By Muhammet Emin Avundukluoglu

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's main opposition party leader called on Istanbul residents to redress the injustice made against their mayoral candidate Ekrem Imamoglu during a re-vote in the province on June 23.

"All people of conscience accepted that Ekrem Imamoglu faced injustice," Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP), told his party's parliamentary group.

"Our brothers and sisters living in Istanbul are the people who will redress this injustice," said Kilicdaroglu.

They will balance the scales of justice in the re-vote, he said.

Some 30,281 votes in 108 ballot boxes were declared invalid due to vote-counting sheets being unsigned or absent altogether, the country's Supreme Election Council (YSK) said in a statement last week.

The original ballot, held on March 31, was declared invalid also due to polling clerks presiding over 754 polling centers not being civil servants, as is required by Turkish law.

The council said this unprecedented practice was serious enough to potentially impact the election results, in which the two leading candidates were divided by a difference of 13,729 votes.

The results of the March vote were canceled after the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party and its coalition partner Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) appealed to the YSK, citing irregularities and contradictions with legal measures.

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