Kılıçdaroğlu reelected as head of main opposition CHP
- Türkiye
- Anadolu Agency
- Published Date: 12:00 | 04 February 2018
- Modified Date: 11:47 | 04 February 2018
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was reelected as chairman of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on Saturday.
Voting was held in the capital, Ankara, at the party's 36th ordinary congress chaired by Yılmaz Büyükerşen, mayor of Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality.
Kılıçdaroğlu received 790 out of 1,237 valid votes. His main opponent -- Muharrem İnce, a lawmaker from northwestern Yalova province -- secured 447 votes.
Thirteen delegates abstained from voting.
Ince, a former deputy group chairman of the party, also ran for the chairmanship against Kılıçdaroğlu in the 2014 party congress, where 740 delegates voted for Kılıçdaroğlu while Ince secured 415 votes.
Kılıçdaroğlu has been leading the party since May 2010.
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