CHP Formally Applies for İstanbul Mandate

CHP Provincial Chair Canan Kaftancıoğlu (Photo: CHP/Twitter)

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The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has formally applied to the İstanbul Provincial Election Council for Ekrem İmamoğlu, who has been elected as the mayor of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality according to the unofficial results, to be mandated.

CHP İstanbul Provincial Chair Canan Kaftancıoğlu submitted the petition, which said İmamoğlu should be mandated upon the Law No. 2972.

Reminding the candidate who gets the most votes according to the voting minutes that were combined at the provincial election council is decided as the mayor, the petition said the winning candidate can be mandated before the announcement of the definite results according to the laws.

Pointing out that the practice has been applied this way in Turkey for years, "Established jurisdiction and practices should be applied equally for everyone," said the petition.

AKP candidate was mandated despite dispute

CHP's winning candidate in the capital Ankara, Mansur Yavaş, was mandated today.

After the March 30 local elections in 2014, CHP candidate Yavaş said that they found irregularities in 6,240 voting minutes. The difference between him and AKP candidate Melih Gökçek was 32 thousand.

Despite the ongoing dispute, Gökçek was mandated on April 5, 2014. The Supreme Election Council (YSK) rejected CHP's appeal on April 9. (EKN/VK)