Presidential

Both internationally and domestically, eyes have been on the Turkish elections. Incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was facing off against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, and the current results are very close with Erdoğan at 49.52% (27,133,837) and Kılıçdaroğlu at 44.88% (24,594,932). With the first round completed, the country was set to decide their new leader on May 28th.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has narrowly edged out Erdoğan for the presidency. The rules for the second round is a simple majority, which Kılıçdaroğlu was able to achieve with 50.48% of the vote. Barely achieving the victory, there have been rumors that Erdoğan would be causing disruption and force a victory for himself. While there were several arrests made on the election day, there was no serious disruption to the voting as anticipated.

Parliament

With Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu barely edging out the victory for the Presidential election, eyes now fell on the Parliamentary election which was having all the seats elected. Would Nation Alliance be able to take over Parliament, or would Erdoğan's People's Alliance maintain some control?

While the People's Alliance was able to hold 281 seats, the necessary amount for majority in Parliament is 301. With this in mind, the Nation Alliance (253 seats) entered negotiations with the Labour & Freedom coalition (61 seats) in order to form a majority government in opposition to Erdoğan's party. After extensive negotiations, the Nation Alliance and the Labour & Freedom formed a coalition government holding 314 seats out of 600.

Now with support in Parliament, Kılıçdaroğlu hopes to have a successful presidency in the post Erdoğan era.