Five days before the Turkish presidential election, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the minimum wage for civil servants would be increased to 15,000 Turkish lira (approximately $768). According to some polls, Erdogan may lose Sunday’s elections.
During Turkey’s latest consecutive presidential campaign, Turkey’s incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the minimum wage for civil servants in Turkey would be increased to 15,000 Turkish liras (about $768). According to the President of Turkey, the salaries of civil servants in Turkey will increase by 45 percent.
Erdogan’s promises
The promise was made during the signing ceremony of the Public Collective Labor Agreement for 2023. The public collective agreement, according to the Rzeczpospolita, provides, among other things, a 10 percent increase in the wages of veterans, victims of terrorism and relatives of victims who work in the public sector. In return, people working the night shift will receive an 8% increase overtime will be paid 70% more.
Presidential elections in Turkey will be held on May 14, that is, in five days. Commentators have no doubt that this will be the most serious electoral test for Erdogan, who has been in power for two decades - he has been president since 2014, before that he was prime minister of Turkey for 11 years.
In Turkey’s first general presidential election in 2014, Erdogan won in the first round with 51.79% of the vote. votes. Four years later, he repeated the success, scoring 52.6 percent. votes. Everything points to the fact that this time the electoral competition in Turkey will be equal. The incumbent’s main rival is Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, chairman of the social democratic pro-European CHP party, who is backed by six opposition groups. An ORC poll conducted at the turn of April and May shows that Kılıçdaroğlu will win Sunday’s elections, for whom 48 percent want to vote. respondents. Erdogan recorded support at 44.6 percent in the poll. On the other hand, an ASAL studio poll points to Erdogan’s victory, which is supported by 49.1 percent. respondents, and Kılıçdaroğlu - 46.3 percent. support.
Will inflation sink Erdogan?
The fall in Erdogan’s popularity is due, in particular, to high inflation (at the end of last year it exceeded 85 percent, now it is more than 43 percent), but also to the dissatisfaction of citizens with the reaction of the authorities to the consequences of the earthquake that hit Turkey in early February this year.
Source: Wprost
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