Erdoğan kept his seat thanks to the bankruptcy of the bourgeois opposition, but he is heading for a clash with the working class amid NATO’s war on Russia.
Erdoğan can posture as an anti-imperialist and a friend of working people and refugees thanks to the political bankruptcy of his rival, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
The continued support of the HDP and the pseudo-left parties for Kılıçdaroğlu as an “alternative” to Erdoğan, despite his campaign’s pro-imperialist and xenophobic character, exposes their own political bankruptcy.
Defeated far-right candidate Sinan Oğan is laying down his demands to both of the surviving pro-war, anti-refugee candidates to see which of them he will support in the run-off.