Correspondent in Istanbul
The countdown begins.
After weeks of rumors and negotiations, Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed this Sunday that he was advancing the next presidential and legislative elections to May 14.
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I will use my authority to advance the election to May 14,”
he said during a video meeting with young people from Bursa, a large industrial city in the West.
Three days before, he had already decided on this date, evoking his wish to organize a month earlier the ballot initially set for June 18.
Reason given: not to disrupt the exams, scheduled at the same time.
But his decision is above all a matter of strategic calculation.
Losing momentum in the polls, against a backdrop of economic collapse, the strong man of the country intends to pull the rug out from under the foot of the opposition while striving to capitalize on his regional and geopolitical maneuvers, in order to maintain himself. in power.
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