The Chairman of the Homeland Party, Muharrem İnce, announced that he withdrew from his candidacy days before the first round of the presidential race, and surprised everyone. What will we face if the same thing happens to us in the second round this time?
According to the Presidential Election Law; Although Muharrem İnce withdrew from the candidacy in the first round, he continued to be on the ballot papers. Moreover, the votes cast deemed “valid”.
As we approach the second round of the elections, what would happen if we encounter a similar scenario again left a question mark in our minds. your choices withdrawal of a presidential candidate in the second round The procedure to be applied in the case of the first round is slightly different compared to the first round.
The candidate who cannot participate in the second round elections can be replaced by the 3rd candidate who received the most votes in the first round. But how?
On the election system and its implementation in the Presidential Election Law in article 4 says:
If one of the candidates entitled to participate in the second ballot does not participate in the election for any reason; second vote, the vacant nomination substitution by order of the first ballot is done by. However, the substitution announcement of provisional results It can be done until 17.00 the following day.
In other words, on the day of the announcement of the first round provisional results, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan if he had declared that he could not participate in the runoff to the vacant candidacy seat Sinan Ogan would sit. However, this situation is generally applied in cases such as the death or loss of qualification of one of the two candidates.
Moreover, provisional results have been announced; For this reason, if one of the candidates ‘currently’ withdraws from the race, we will go to a referendum.
Muharrem İnce remained on the ballot papers because even though he had withdrawn from the candidacy, he was still on the YSK’s official list of candidates. For this reason too continued to appear on the ballot papers. As a matter of fact, İnce was among the official candidates of the YSK.
However, if we encounter the situation of withdrawing from the candidacy, days before the second round election, while the provisional results have been announced by the YSK, we will go to the referendarum for the candidate standing alone in the race. In such a situation, this time for the only candidate left. Our “yes/no” vote will need.
Well what does it mean?
Before the second round of the election takes place, the number of candidates drops to 1, does not directly make the remaining candidate president. Second round elections are held in the form of a referendum and If the majority of the people vote “Yes” The only remaining candidate is declared the new president.
Let’s say the elections went to a referendum, but the majority said “No”. What will happen this time?
In the scenario where one of the candidates is withdrawn and the other candidate is not accepted in the referendum; the presidential election is repeated. For this, re-election is held on Sunday, 45 days after the final results of the referendum are announced.
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