In Pontic rhythms he celebrated Ekrem Imamoglou his triumph at Constantinople. The mayor of Istanbul, who is originally from Trebizond, danced to a Pontic song and threw away his jacket and tie, amid cheers from his supporters.

“Well, you won, go ahead and change everything” shouted the delirious supporters of the mayor as broadcast by Manolis Kostidis.

The victory is twofold for Mayor Imamoglu, 52, as he not only retains the office he won after a hard-fought battle in 2019, but managed a spectacular slap in the face of President Erdogan, who had devoted much of his energy of late to supporting his “chosen one,” engineer and former environment minister Murat Kurum who ran for office for the first time. .

Two of the songs heard about the mayor of Istanbul:

“He won the elections twice, Ekrem withstood all the injustice well
They said, “don’t work,” they put obstacles in his way, but he himself opened 10 subway lines.
He inaugurated 18 new squares and they are so beautiful.”

(Song 30:20 to 30:48)

“A man is next to us and his name is Imamoglou
There is a long road to our future
Go ahead Imamoglu for justice and equality
Imamoglu to end injustice and corruption.
Go ahead Imamoglu for justice and equality
Imamoglu to end injustice and corruption.
Istanbul is beautiful with you, go ahead Imamoglu
Imamoglu, go forward at full speed.”

(Song 31:20 to 32:00)

CONSTANTINOPLE ELECTION RESULT:

• EKREM IMAMOGLOU 51.08%
• MURAT KOURUM. 39.58%