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The Homeland Party's leader has submitted his retreat from the race to the electoral authority. His name remains on the ballot papers on May 14.

Supreme Election Board President Güven has said, “The number of voters to cast vote at the ballot boxes planned to be moved is 144 thousand”.

HDP’s MP candidate Abdullah Güngen has been vetoed by the Supreme Election Board on the ground that the decision to return his legal rights hasn’t been issued. İdris Baluken’s candidacy has been dropped due to his penalty being upheld.

CHP İzmir MP Çan has applied to the European Court of Human Rights against the referendum on the Constitutional Amendment Package.

YSK has announced that the “Yes” votes constituted 51.41% and the “No” votes 48.59% of all the valid votes.

The Council of State has refused CHP’s request to reverse the Supreme Election Board’s decision to consider unsealed ballot papers valid as well as the party’s application for a stay of proceedings to enforce the decision.

The Supreme Election Board has denied all applications made by CHP, HDP and Vatan Party seeking the annulment of the Referendum held on April 16.

Stating that the unsealed envelopes were not separated from the sealed ones and therefore it was not possible to determine how many unsealed ballot papers were used, CHP Vice Chair Tezcan said: “The only thing to do is to annul the referendum”.