A pro-government television station accidentally aired “results” showing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan being re-elected with 53 percent of the vote in the early hours of Thursday morrning, according to a report by neo-nationalist news outlet Odatv.
At around 2 am on Thursday morning, the screen on the programme Akıl Odası on pro-government TVNet, the sister-channel to the Islamist newspaper Yeni Şafak, cut to a rolling results screen for “Elections 2018” apparently provided by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) showing pre-entered values for the final election results, all the way down to the province level.
On the TV broadcast, Erdoğan won 53 percent of the vote; Muharrem İnce, the presidential candidate of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) 26 percent; İYİ Party’s presidential candidate Meral Akşener 12 percent, pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Parrty’s (HDP) jailed presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş 7 percent, and remaining candidates Temel Karamollaoğlu and Doğu Perinçek 1 percent each.
Demirtaş’s proposed percentage, which is lower than polls suggest, may represent the hope of whoever inputted the numbers that his HDP does not achieve the 10 percent election threshold, thus leaving the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) with almost a guarantee of a renewed majority at the Parliament.
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