Turkey 's electoral authority has announced a rerun of the vote for Istanbul 's mayor, expected on 31 March . The authority allegedly bowed to pressure from President Erdogan 's AKP after the opposition CHP party narrowly won the mayoral election on 31 March . Turkish newspaper Haberturk said that the reason given for the new vote was that some ballot box workers were not official civil servants and that some results documents were unsigned. Erdogan 's party said there were "irregularities" in the vote and that a margin of millions votes was too small. A spokesman from the CHP party described the move as "plain dictatorship" from Erdogan , while the EU called for Istanbul to explain its reasoning. The controversy follows an election which saw the AKP party lose support in Ankara and Istanbul .
Turkey 's electoral authority has announced a rerun of the vote for Istanbul 's mayor, expected on 31 March . The authority allegedly bowed to pressure from President Erdogan 's AKP after the opposition CHP party narrowly won the mayoral election on 31 March . Erdogan 's party said there were "irregularities" in the vote and that a margin of millions votes was too small. A spokesman from the CHP party described the move as "plain dictatorship" from Erdogan , while the EU called for Istanbul to explain its reasoning. The controversy follows an election which saw the AKP party lose support in Ankara and Istanbul .