“We know the needs of this city [Istanbul]. We know the demands of everybody living in this city, and we’ll start serving immediately.” CHP's Ekrem Imamoglu says as he takes over as Istanbul mayor from former mayor Mevlut Uysal
Istanbul mayor-elect Ekrem Imamoglu takes the mayoral seal from the former Istanbul mayor Mevlut Uysal during the handover ceremony at Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality building at Sarachane in Istanbul, Turkey on April 17, 2019.
Imamoglu took the mayoral seal from former Istanbul mayor Mevlut Uysal during a handover ceremony at Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality building at Sarachane in Istanbul. After Turkey's local elections on March 31, the results for Istanbul were held up as the alliance led by the governing Justice and Development Party and opposition parties appealed to the Supreme Election Council for vote recounts and annulments.
AK Party appealed to the YSK to redo the vote in Istanbul after the recount and asked the electoral body to postpone the handover to Imamoglu. The Istanbul provincial body of the Supreme Election Board rejected the request to postpone giving the certificate.According to official results, Imamoglu won the election, receiving 4,169,765 votes while Turkey's former prime minister and the AK Party candidate Binali Yildirim, 63, received 4,156,036 votes.
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