Turkish electoral council points out referendum complaints

Turkish electoral council points out referendum complaints

World April 19, 2017 17:09

ankara - Turkey's High Election Board (YSK) has rejected all the complaints from opposition parties over the affairs of the referendum last Sunday Wednesday. The formal request by the main opposition party to declare the results invalid was dismissed.

The electoral council received a storm of criticism over himself after the referendum, partly because of the decision Sunday too ballots without official approval stamp. That was according to Turkish lawyers against the law.

The opposition said not to abide by the outcome of the referendum. Opposition party CHP announced Tuesday a request to declare the result invalid. The vice chairman of the party, Bülent Tezcan, said that while the number of votes ' disappeared '' during the referendum ' unprecedented '' for Turkish elections.

The pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP Wednesday also filed a request to cancel the results. Vice President Mithat Sancar said that the referendum is not fair. He pointed out, among other things had to be conducted that campaign while HDP were prominent in the cell and the state of emergency was in force.

Sancar also believed that accepting ballots without official stamp may have fraudulently states encouraged. It would now be impossible to verify how many invalid or false votes. ' This referendum will always remain controversial, '' he warned.

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