Turkey's main opposition party submits the formal request seeking the referendum to be annulled, citing irregularities.
Republican People's Party demanded that the country's Supreme Electoral Council (SEC) cancel the results of the constitutional referendum, a party spokesman told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Bülent Tezcan, deputy chairman of CHP, announced the move at the Ankara offices of the electoral board. He said the results of the referendum on constitutional changes are "illegitimate" and the party would use all legal paths to challenge it.
Tezcan said that "we demand the cancellation of this referendum."
The opposition has listed a series of irregularities but has been particularly outraged by an electoral board decision announced late Sunday to accept ballots that didn't bear the official stamps used to verify they are genuine, as required by Turkish law. Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, who also listed numerous problems, said the move undermined important election safeguards.
Opposition CHP head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu accused the electoral board of bias and of favouring the governing party.
"It is clear that the High Electoral Board is not receiving its power from the people, the law or the constitution but rather from a specific centre, a specific political authority," he told his party's lawmakers during a speech in Ankara Tuesday. He accused the board of "changing the rules midgame."
