(ANSA) - ISTANBUL, 22 MAY - Sinan Ogan, the ultranationalist candidate who with 5.2% of the votes in the Turkish presidential elections had come third, has announced that he will support incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, May 28, during a press conference in Ankara broadcast by state television TRT. With just over 5% of the vote, about 2.800 million votes, Ogan came third in the first round of the presidential elections, after the candidate of the main opposition parties Kilicdaroglu who obtained almost 45% and Erdogan who obtained 49.5% of the votes. According to analysts, Ogan intercepted a protest vote.
Coming from the far-right nationalist MHP party that he left in 2017, Ogan ran for president this year supported by an alliance of small, right-wing nationalist parties united by very critical positions towards Syrian migrants and refugees in Turkey.
One of these formations, the Victory Party (ZaferPartisi), announced today that coalition forces have stopped making shared decisions but will move independently from now on. (ANSA).
Turkey: Ogan to support Erdogan in run-off
2023-05-22T14:48:42.050Z
Highlights: Sinan Ogan, the ultranationalist candidate who with 5.2% of the votes in the Turkish presidential elections had come third, has announced that he will support incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the run-off on Sunday 28 May. According to analysts, Ogan intercepted a protest vote. Ogan ran for president this year supported by an alliance of small, right-wing nationalist parties united by very critical positions towards Syrian migrants and refugees in Turkey. One of these formations, the Victory Party (ZaferPartisi), announced that coalition forces have stopped making shared decisions but will move independently from now on.
Sinan Ogan, the ultranationalist candidate who with 5.2% of the votes in the Turkish presidential elections had come third, has announced that he will support incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the run-off on Sunday 28 May, during a conference ... (ANSA)