Ruling party pulling ahead: Poll

Hurriyet Daily News with wires

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Melih Gökçek, AKP’s candidate for Ankara is expected to get 32.2 percent votes. Gökçek is followed by Mansur Yavaş of the Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP, with 27.4 percent.

Murat Karayalçın of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, is right behind Yavaş with 26.5 percent of votes, according to the survey. The survey was conducted among 2,432 people in Ankara and among 2,437 respondents in Istanbul between March 21 and 22 in face-to-face interviews.

In Istanbul, AKP’s mayoral candidate Kadir Topbaş ranked first with 41 percent of votes, according to the survey. CHP candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is expected to get 32.2 percent, followed by MHP candidate Ahmet Turgut with 3.9 percent. After the floating votes are distributed, AKP gets 49.7 percent votes, CHP 39.1 votes and MHP 4.7 votes in Istanbul, said the survey.

Meanwhile, according to another survey carried out by polling company Metropoll yesterday, AKP’s candidates are way ahead of the other party candidates. Candidates for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party may draw about 41 percent of the vote, according to Metropoll’s survey, Bloomberg reported yesterday.

The CHP might win about 18 percent and the MHP 10 percent, Özer Sencar, head of the research company, said yesterday in Istanbul.