Results of Sunday’s elections could not be considered as success by Green Left Party

By Sefa Sahin

ANKARA (AA) – The Party of Greens and the Left Future (Green Left Party) said on Monday that the results of Sunday's parliamentary and presidential elections would not be considered a success for the party.

"We would like to state that we have not fully achieved the targets we set for these elections. It is clear that the election results cannot be seen as a success for us,” the party’s spokeswoman Cigdem Kilicgun Ucar said at a press conference in Ankara.

Claiming that the effect of tricks and conspiracies was decisive in the emergence of this result, she said they found the result important despite all the factors.

"We are aware of our responsibility to evaluate these results in the process of criticism and self-criticism in all aspects by receiving the message of the electorate, and we will do what is necessary,” she added.

Millions of voters went to the polls Sunday to elect the country's next president and the members of its 600-seat parliament.

On the presidential ballot, voters chose between incumbent President Erdogan representing the People's Alliance, Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and joint candidate for the six-party opposition Nation Alliance, and Sinan Ogan of the ATA (Ancestral) Alliance.

Erdogan finished the first round with 49.51% of the vote, with Kilicdaroglu second at 44.88%, said Ahmet Yener, head of the Supreme Election Council, citing unofficial results.

Türkiye will hold a second-round runoff on May 28 to elect the president after no candidate won an outright majority in Sunday's poll, Yener announced on Monday.

The first round of voting ended with no candidate able to clear the required 50% threshold, but incumbent President Erdogan took the lead, he added.

*Writing by Gozde Bayar