Ekrem Imamoglu was widely re-elected on Sunday evening, a victory which propels him into the 2028 presidential race. The city councilor made a sensational entrance onto the national political scene five years ago by inflicting his worst electoral setback on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He still refuses to call himself a candidate for the supreme office: “There are four years left until 2028. It would be inappropriate to talk about that today,” he evaded in a recent interview.