Turkey’s ruling party contests Ankara ballot results April 5, 2019 at 9:45 pm | Published in: Europe & Russia , News , Turkey Scrutineers count votes after the polls for the local elections closed at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey on March 31, 2019. The voting ended for local elections in all 81 provinces across Turkey at 5 p.m. local time (1400GMT) on Sunday. Turkey is holding its first local elections under the new presidential system, adopted in the April 2017 referendum. [Arif Hüdaverdi Yaman /Anadolu Agency] April 5, 2019 at 9:45 pm Turkey’s ruling party has officially applied for the recount of votes in the Ankara metropolitan municipality elections, the party’s provincial head said on Friday, Anadolu Agency has reported.

“We have applied to the Provincial Election Council with our request to recount votes in all 12,180 ballot boxes,” said Hakan Han Ozcan, the Justice and Development (AK) Party’s provincial head.

The party also challenged the results in 25 districts of Ankara and so far the recount process has been completed in 12 districts.

Ozcan said that a total of 1,807 votes have turned in the favor of AK Party’s candidate Mehmet Ozhaseki, while 688 in favor of opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate Mansur Yavas.

He said that there were so many irregularities as many votes were not registered in the system of the Supreme Election Council (YSK), while the votes registered later were written in different sections, or the sections were left empty.

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