Turkish referendum: “Yes” lead narrows to 51.7 percent

 

The Central Election Commission of Turkey has announced the victory of supporters of amendments to the constitution of Turkey at the referendum with a landslide of 1.25 million votes, Sadi Guven, head of the Central Election Commission (CEC) told journalists today.

 

 

“The preliminary results of the processing of the ballots show that the number of votes “for” (amendments) was by 1.25 mln higher at the referendum. The result of the vote is “yes” (to the approval of the amendments to the Constitution),” he said.

 

The final results will be announced at the latest 11-12 days, Guven said, adding that “counting votes is almost complete, and about 600,000 ballots are yet to be processed.”