I think this thread is intended to be about cats, and sometimes other animals, being assholes.
I have decided however that it is very apt for news of the
Istanbul mayoral elections. (FULZENSHITOF might have already posted this ... don't care.)
As you all know, in March there were local elections across Turkey. One of these was the Istanbul mayoral election, in which
opposition candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu apparently won by 0.2%.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan decided there had been "irregularities" in all Istanbul districts and annulled the results, setting a new date.
A big "fuck you, that's why" to democracy.
However ...
From
Opponents of Turkey’s erratic president should try harder - Istanbul stands up to a bully:
Quote:
WHAT DID he think he was playing at? When Turkey’s autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, strong-armed his country’s electoral watchdog into annulling the result of a mayoral election his party had lost in March, it looked like an obvious blunder. Surely, many observers thought, the people of Istanbul would furiously resent having their votes overruled, and flock in bigger numbers than before to support the opposition man, Ekrem Imamoglu? Unless, of course, Mr Erdogan had a sinister plan up his sleeve to rig the new election.
He did not—or at least not one bold enough to cope with how voters in Turkey’s largest and richest city gave the challenger an emphatic victory on June 23rd, by 54% to 45%, far more than his earlier, slender margin of 0.2%. Democracy, though ailing in Turkey, is not yet dead.
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A bigger "fuck you, that's why" from Turkish voters to Erdoğan.