Voting date for Turkish citizens living in Georgia revealed

Turkish citizens living in Georgia will be able to vote in the May 7-9 general elections, according to the Embassy of the Republic of Türkiye in Tbilisi, Report informs referring to Sputnik-Georgia.

Presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye are scheduled for May 14. The voting process for the general election for Türkiye’s 3.4 million citizens living abroad began on April 27. They will be able to vote until May 9.

Türkiye has the biggest diaspora in Germany, where 1.5 million Turkish citizens can vote. There are 400,000 Turkish voters in France.

The main opponent of the incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - the single candidate from the Republican Alliance - is the single candidate from the opposition People’s Alliance Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Also running in the elections are Memleket party leader Muharrem Ince and Ata alliance candidate Sinan Ogan.

If in the first round of the presidential elections none of the candidates can win an absolute majority of votes, then the second round of elections will be held on May 20-24.