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And most disturbing trend in the rise of ill liberal democracy. the results last weekend were a victory all the same. he did better than the polls predicted and came out well ahead of his main opponent leaving him high lie likely to win in the runoff scheduled for may 28th. this is stunning given that turkey is a country in economic catastrophe with sky high inflation. the vote also took place just months after an earthquake in which the government performed miserably. consider, though, the back drop to those elections. erdogan was um against kemal, a colorful bureaucrat without much charisma ...

Election council with its preliminary results is suggesting that both of them fell short of the 50% needed. so we are going to a runoff two weeks from now on may 28th and it's going to be as high stakes and actually quite dangerous going forward. erdogan can be expected to pull out all the stops in order to put himself over the top. and that includes instrumentalizing the entirety of the state apparatus. that is what is happened, he has been in power for 20 years, the state is essentially in his hands and he can use it in order to go after his opponents, and you can be sure that he will. the s...

Point. erdogan has been in power for 20 years and there was a real sense that the united opposition would be able to take him down. perhaps even in a first round. but as you pointed out, right now at least the supreme election council with its preliminary results is suggesting that both of them fell short of the 50% needed. so we are going to a runoff two weeks from now on may 28th and it's going to be as high stakes and actually quite dangerous going forward. erdogan can be expected to pull out all the stops in order to put himself over the top. and that includes instrumentalizing the entiret...

Later. for now, turkey will hold a runoff election to decide its next president. that will pit incumbent president, recep erdogan, against his democratic challenger who pledged to revive democracy in the nation. the election failed to produce a candidate that could clear the 50% threshold needed to win outright. erdogan led by roughly five points. a runoff vote will take place on may 28th, joe. the world has been watching this carefully. we know president erdogan has, at times, being a thorn in the side of nato. we won't have the results of this election now for a couple weeks. >> right. i m...

Threshold needed to win. his main challenger had a coalition of six opposition groups. let's go live to istanbul and becky anderson joins us. a big election with giant global consequences. >> reporter: you're absolutely right. it's been a dramatic 24 hours in turkish politics, as you rightly point out, leading to the first-ever presidential runoff. frankly that has the incumbent president in the lead. the runoff will be two weeks from sunday, so may 28th. and this is despite the fact that president erdogan faced some real challenges. we have a cost of living crisis here in turkey, the likes of...