Turkey’s justice minister: Time to contest vote results over
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s ruling party and the main opposition party kept up their fight Saturday over the results of the referendum on expanding the president’s powers.
In a series of tweets Saturday, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag slammed the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) for continuing to object to the results of the April 16 referendum due to voting irregularities, saying that judicial paths to reverse the ruling are shut.
The CHP fired back, saying he was threatening the judiciary in order to get them to rule against the party’s case.
Unofficial results show the “yes” campaign for transforming Turkey’s parliamentary government system into a presidential one garnered 51.4 per cent of the vote. Official results by the electoral board are expected next week.