Power blackouts mar counting votes
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Quand l’électricité s’en mêle. Bizarre, vous avez dit bizarre, comme c’est bizarre!
Eskişehir Mayor Yılmaz Büyükerşen, a CHP member, has said there are power outages in nine neighborhoods in the city center, as well as the main courthouse. “15 percent of votes have been counted and we lead with 52.07 percent, while the [ruling Justice and Development Party] AKP candidate is at 35 percent. The company that supplies the city power has not returned our queries regarding the blackout. There are several uncounted ballots that cannot be registered now,” he said.
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız denied any wrongdoing. Yıldız spoke in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri after the voting was completed, saying: “Especially in the eastern Mediterranean cities of Mersin, Adana and Gaziantep, there was a storm with winds reaching 75 km/h. On the other hand, there was heavy snow in eastern Anatolian cities like Erzurum and Ardahan. These weather conditions caused some local power outages which didn’t affect the vote counting.”