Annulment of the Istanbul mayor election on March 31 2019 di Baris Ciftci
Abstract – Two acknowledged and significant candidates ran against each other for being the metropolitan mayor of Istanbul on March 31, 2019: Ekrem İmamoğlu as the candidate of CHP and İYİ Party (Nation’s Alliance) and Binali Yıldırım as the candidate of AKP and MHP (People’s Alliance). Sadi Güven, the chairman of the Supreme Board of Elections, declared that Mr. İmamoğlu had won the election on April 1, 2019 but the votes from 84 ballot boxes weren’t counted yet due to the objections. However, AKP objected the results and the Supreme Board of Elections decided to annul and re-run the Istanbul mayoral election on May 6, 2019. Later, Mr. İmamoğlu who got 54,21% of the total votes became the new mayor of Istanbul with the results of the June 23, 2019 elections. The difference between the number of the votes increased to 800 thousand from 13 thousand. This increase can be explained with some reasons. uncertainty of the causal relation between the annulment of the election and the justification of the annulment and the reaction of the people towards the legitimacy of the annulment.
Keywords – Turkish law, election, annulment election, mayor of Istanbul, democracy, legitimacy