Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again canceled his campaign events, scheduled for Thursday, due to an intestinal virus.just weeks before a tight presidential election, the presidential party announced Wednesday night.
“Today I will rest at home in accordance with the advice of our doctors,” Erdogan announced on his Twitter account.
“God willing, we will continue our program starting tomorrow,” added the 69-year-old president after apologizing for not being able to participate in the events in three provinces of central Anatolia where he was scheduled to speak this day, in the midst of the electoral campaign for the general elections on May 14.
For his part, the spokesman for the Presidency, Ibrahim Kalin, assured shortly after, also in a tweet, that The health of the Head of State and Government “is good”.
His unexpected announcement came after late Tuesday and as a result of an apparently unforeseen health problem, the president briefly interrupted an interview broadcast live on two television channels.
Before the brief interruption of the broadcast, viewers heard how people who were in the environment of the president exclaimed “Oh, no!”.
Erdogan’s main rival in the elections, the Social Democrat Kemal Kilicdarogluimmediately published a tweet in which he wished him a speedy recovery.
After returning to the broadcast minutes later, the president explained that he had suffered a stomach problem due to a cold.
“Naturally, we face these kinds of problems from time to time in the midst of such a tight schedule,” he said then.
Today he expressed his gratitude to those who had conveyed “their wishes and prayers for the little inconvenience I had during the broadcast due to my busy work.”
Erdogan, who has ruled Türkiye since 2002 as leader of the conservative and Islamist AKP partyis facing his toughest electoral race these days, since most polls predict a defeat against Kiliçdaroglu, the sole candidate of an alliance of six opposition parties.
Kiliçdaroglu leads the polls with 47.5 percent of voting intentions, an advantage of more than three points compared to Erdogan’s 44.4 percent.
If none of them exceeds 50 percent on May 14, voters must return to the polls two weeks later to elect their president in a second round.
(With information from EFE and AFP)
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