The Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections dominated Twitter throughout the Arab world.
The hashtag #President Erdoğan was the highest trending within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with over 215,000 tweets.
In Egypt, the hashtag #President Erdoğan had been utilized in greater than 213,000 tweets, adopted by hashtag #Turkish elections with 80,000 tweets. The two hashtags had been additionally the highest trending in Qatar.
Erdoğan hashtag was the preferred in Morocco, Bahrain and Iraq with greater than 216,000, 214,000 and 215,000 tweets respectively. It was additionally probably the most trending in Jordan and Yemen.
Millions of Turkish voters went to polls on Sunday to elect the nation’s subsequent president and members of its 600-seat parliament.
The first spherical of voting ended with no candidate capable of clear the required 50% threshold, however incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took the lead, stated Ahmet Yener, head of the Supreme Election Council, citing unofficial outcomes.
Erdoğan completed the primary spherical with 49.51% of the vote, whereas his closest competitor Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, chief of the primary opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), got here second at 44.88%, Yener stated.
Sinan Oğan of the ATA (Ancestral) Alliance obtained 5.17%, whereas Muharrem Ince, who withdrew from the presidential race late final week after ballots had already been printed, obtained 0.44%, Yener added.
As no candidate was capable of win an outright majority in Sunday’s vote, a second-round runoff shall be held on May 28.
Voter turnout in Sunday’s elections was 88.92%, with turnout from Turkish residents overseas at 52.69%, Yener stated.
As for parliamentary elections, the People’s Alliance, led by Erdoğan’s Justice and Development (AK) Party, and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), are poised to safe a majority of seats within the Turkish parliament after Sunday’s polls.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
