İstanbul Mayor-Elect İmamoğlu Given Mandate
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İstanbul mayor-elect Ekrem İmamoğlu, who participated in the March 31 local elections as the candidate of the informal Nation Alliance led by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), has been invited to the Provincial Election Council at the İstanbul Courthouse to be given the certificate of election.
The last part of the recount of the votes upon the appeals was completed in Maltepe district last night (April 16).
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CHP İstanbul Chair Canan Kaftancıoğlu tweeted today at around 3.30 p.m., saying, "We are getting our mandate." MPs Barış Yarkadaş and Özgür Özel also said İmamoğlu was invited to the İstanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan to be given the certificate of the election.
CHP MP Barış Yarkadaş shared the picture of the moment that İmamoğlu signs his certificate of election.
Hundreds of people welcomed İmamoğlu at the courthouse.
CHP Group Deputy Chair Engin altay announced at around 5 p.m. that İmamoğlu got his mandate.
At around 6 p.m., a handover ceremony will be held and İmamoğlu will assume office.
#Mazbata (mandate) made into the trending topics on Twitter in Turkey.
Hundreds of people welcomed İmamoğlu at the couthouse.
Who is Ekrem İmamoğlu?Ekrem İmamoğlu and his wife Dilek on their way to get the mandate. Ekrem İmamoğlu was born in 1970 in the Black Sea province of Trabzon. He was graduated from the Trabzon High School and İstanbul University Department of Business Administration (English). He got his master's degree at the İstanbul University Department of Human Resources and Administrative Science. He began his work life in 1992 at his family's construction company. He served as the board chair of the company. As a former amateur football player, he acted as a board member at the Trabzonspor football club, Trabzonspor basketball club, and Beylikdüzüsport. He was appointed as CHP Beylikdüzü District Chair in 2009 and elected as the Beylikdüzü District Mayor in the 2014 local elections. He was elected as İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality in the March 31, 2019 local elections. He is married with three children. He and his family have been living in Beylikdüzü since 1991. |
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