{"id":168247,"date":"2019-06-24T06:40:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T03:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=168247"},"modified":"2019-06-24T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T10:42:57","slug":"opposition-candidate-ekrem-imamoglu-wins-istanbuls-mayoral-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=168247","title":{"rendered":"Opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu wins Istanbul&#8217;s mayoral election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara, SANA-The opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) candidate Ekrem Imamoglu has won a landslide victory in the rerun of Istanbul\u2019s mayoral election on Sunday as his opponent Binali Yildirim of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) conceded defeat .<\/p>\n<p>Turkish media mentioned that most ballot boxes counted, Imamoglu won 53.6 per cent to Yildirim\u2019s 45.4 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anadolu Agency which is affiliated to the Turkish regime, Binali Yildirim conceded and congratulated his rival in a televised speech shortly after the results showed Imamoglu leading, with nearly 54 percent of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>The result was a huge increase for Mr. Imamoglu on the overturned March ballot that he won by 13 thousand votes.<\/p>\n<p>The Istanbul mayoral elections were first held on March 31, when Imamoglu secured 48.8 percent of the vote, while the AK Party&#8217;s Yildirim held 48.55 percent, making Imamoglu mayor with a slim margin of 13 thousand votes.<\/p>\n<p>The state election board annulled the vote of March 31 and ordered a rare repeat of the contest, sparking criticism that the board had succumbed to the demands of Erdogan who seeks to impose dominance over the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ruaa al-Jazaeri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara, SANA-The opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) candidate Ekrem Imamoglu has won a landslide victory in the rerun of Istanbul\u2019s mayoral election on Sunday as his opponent Binali Yildirim of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) conceded defeat . Turkish media mentioned that most ballot boxes counted, Imamoglu won 53.6 per cent to Yildirim\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":168248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}