Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu in faceoff in Turkiye's second round elections

Turkey is getting ready for an unprecedented second round of elections on Sunday in which its president will be elected.

In the run-off, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a lead of almost five points (49.5 percent), or 2.5 million votes, over his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu (44.5 percent), the candidate of a six-party coalition with a broad spectrum from the nationalist right to the center-left.

What the polls show

The latest polls – the institutes conducting them were way off in the run-up to the first round – confirm that Tayyip Erdogan is ahead, putting him five points ahead.

Despite this figure, which favors Tayyip Erdogan, there is still an unknown variable: that is the 8.3 million votes of the citizens who did not express themselves in the first round, even though the turnout reached 87%.