Ankara, June 1 (UNI) Turkish Supreme Election Council Thursday officially declared Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the winner of the presidential election runoff with 52.18 percent of the votes.

In the second round of the presidential election on May 28, a total of 52,093,375 voters cast their ballots in Türkiye, and the voting rate was 85.72 percent, Ahmet Yener, chair of the election body told reporters.

Erdogan was reelected as the president in the runoff polls where he contested against the presidential nominee of the Turkish opposition bloc Kemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, leader of the centre-left Republican People's Party (CHP).

Kilicdaroglu had 47.82 percent of the votes, Yener said.

The presidential runoff was held after neither of the candidates secured over 50 percent of votes in the May 14 elections.

Erdogan will take oath in parliament on Saturday and then announce his new cabinet.

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