The chances of the current Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to win in the first round of the presidential elections are fading. This follows from the voting results as of 23:20, when 90.61% of the ballot boxes have already been processed.. As CNN Turk reports with reference to the Anadolu agency, Erdogan's result has been gradually decreasing over the past few hours..

If, after processing 51.03% of the ballot boxes, he had a result of 52.03% of the votes, then after processing 90.61%, his result is 49.86% of the votes (24 million 724.8 thousand. ) and steadily decreases. Recall that in order to win in the first round, you need to get more than 50% of the votes..

Erdogan's main rival, the representative of the united opposition Kemal Kilidaroglu, at the same moment had 44.38% of the votes (22 million 9.9 thousand.

Central Electoral Commission left to process 9.39% of ballot boxes.

In third place is the candidate Sinan Ogan, with 5.3% (or 2 million 627.5 thousand. votes), and in the fourth, who withdrew from the elections, Muharrem Ince, 229.3 thousand voters voted for him (0.46% ).

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Recall that Erdogan has been in power in Turkey for almost 20 years.. According to analysts, voiced by The Guardian, he has a real chance of losing power by losing the election to a candidate from the united opposition..

On May 12, President Erdogan announced that he would accept the results of Sunday's elections and, in case of a loss, would hand over power to the winner.. "

Read about possible future changes in the political system, social structure and economic development model of Turkey in the article by Yevgenia Gaber “The main elections of the year: who will come to power in Turkey and what to expect for Ukraine”? » on DT. U.A..