Background: On June 18, 2023, the Turkish general election will be held which will include the first round of the Turkish presidential election. According to opinion polls, Erdogan could lose in the second round against certain potential candidates.
Update: The first round has been moved forward to Sunday, May 14.
This market will resolve as YES if Erdogan is declared the winner of 2023's first presidential election by the Supreme Election Council, and NO otherwise.
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Resolves yes. The election council confirmed the results.
Yes
The election outcome will be determined to a likely significant extent by Sinan Oğan's direction to his voter base.
There are a couple of reasons he may choose to publicly support Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu:
- Both Kemal and Sinan are currently members of parties that are ideologically Kemalist.
- Sinan has said he will support the candidate that is more "anti-Syrian", while Erdoğan seems actually relatively more "pro-Syrian" than is Kılıçdaroğlu.
-- https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230504-turkey-s-syrians-root-for-erdogan-in-may-vote
-- https://npasyria.com/en/97735/
However, Sinan is also "anti-Kurdish", which could mean a higher chance of supporting Erdoğan instead:
- https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-runoff-potential-kingmaker-draws-red-line-kurdish-consessions-2023-05-15/
- https://www.arabnews.com/node/2299416/middle-east
It is very sad that this second round be framed so divisively, by such a far right figure, and by such xenophobic stances in general.
Note: I have not researched into RTE/KK swing voters yet, so there is still further uncertainty even beyond what is suggested by the above information.
@cloudprism boy, Erdogan won with 49.5%. It would need that more than 80% of the people that voted to another candidate to vote to Kilicdaroglu
How could he lose? He needs 15% of the far-right candidate's vote (or even just 25% of them to abstain) (double check I need to do the math)
Erdogan's lead is steadily reducing, currently at 50.7% according to Wikipedia. Runoff is likely.
I saw a tweet that polls where Kilicdaroglu is leading are getting appealed, so that might cause delay in reporting that favors him and close the gap. I don’t think it will be enough to erase Erdogan’s lead but it seems likely to dip him under 50%.
What a great day this market is trading at 37%. Let's crush these autocratic assholes
