AKP defeat in Istanbul threatens to

According to the mayor elections in Istanbul, said the candidate of the AKP as the winner, in the Morning, then the competitor of the CHP. President Erdogan is very cautious.

Christian Buttkereit, ARD-Studio Istanbul

In some streets already Transparent hung this Morning with the inscription "Tesekküler Istanbul" - "Thank you Istanbul!" On the faces of President Erdogan and his candidate for Istanbul mayor election. But thank you for what?

In the night, had declared Yildirim self to the election winner, even before all the votes were tallied. Probably that was a bit premature. In the Morning, also the candidate of the social democratic CHP, Ekrem Imamoğlu, the guidance claimed: "We will all keep you posted on further enumeration here and in the office of the High electoral Council on the alert. We will not give up."

transparency of the ACP after the mayoral election with the inscription "Tesekküler Istanbul" - "Thank you Istanbul!"

what is striking is the unusual reluctance of state President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the night of the election. In his traditional speech on the balcony of the party headquarters in Ankara, he declared that Istanbul is neither won nor lost.

the state news Agency Anadolu, the count has stagnated since the late in the evening, with 98 percent of ballot boxes. The website of the election authority was not. This morning, finally, the head Sadi Güven said that the results of 84 ballot boxes due to "various objections" are still not fed into the System.

According to the current state have received Ekrem Imamoğlu yet 4.159.650 votes and Binali Yıldırım 4.131.761. So a lead of just under 28,000 votes for the CHP candidate. "But the analysis goes further," says Güven.

Imamoğlu self, that he has received 25.158 more votes than his Rival Yildirim of the ACP. The database of the CHP.