The leaders of Hungary and the CIS countries congratulated Erdogan on his election victory

The current head of state, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who won the presidential elections in Turkey, began to accept congratulations from foreign colleagues. Even before the publication of the final vote count data, on the evening of May 28, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev called him. Press service of the head of the republic informedthat Mirziyoyev congratulated Erdogan on a “convincing, historic victory”. According to him, the high voter turnout and the results of the second round of voting testify to the “convincing support of the friendly Turkish people for the policy and course of reforms” of the incumbent president.

Turkish leader congratulated with victory and the head of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev. In a telephone conversation with Erdogan, he also pointed out the trust of Turkish citizens to the incumbent president and wished him success. Aliyev invited the new president to pay an official visit to Azerbaijan – he accepted the invitation, the press service reports.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban drew attention to the results of the vote, he congratulated him with a message on Twitter. “Congratulations to President Erdogan on his landslide election victory!” Orban wrote. He also duplicated the congratulations in Turkish and published a joint photo.

Today, Erdogan, after the completion of the counting of votes in the presidential elections, said that the people for the next five years transferred responsibility for governing the country to him and his administration. He called the results of the presidential elections a holiday of democracy. “All of our 85 million citizens became winners both in the elections on May 14 and in the elections on May 28. We said: “We will win so much that no one will lose.” So today, only Turkey is the winner,” Erdogan said in a statement published on the official website of the head of state.

Erdogan won 51.92% of the votes in the second round of the presidential elections after processing more than 99.99% of the ballots. Voting data on the evening of May 28 published with reference to the data of the CEC of the republic, the state agency Anadolu. rival of the incumbent, opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, 48.08% of citizens voted. The turnout was 85.65%. It was decided to organize a second round after none of the three candidates on May 14 passed the 50% mark required to win in the first round.