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Live blog update| Turkey elections 2023

Cats and lambs: Relaxed energy at polls

Unlike the first round of voting, there appears to be a relaxed atmosphere at polling stations, with little signs of congestion. 

So much so that one voter turned up to express her democratic right alongside her lamb. 

https://twitter.com/secimtr2023/status/1662738901381808128?s=20

Elsewhere, cats were spotted hanging out with polling station officials. 

"Friends, our ballot box president looks like a very problematic person, which party do you think[?]" a social media user joked

https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1662752926614388736?s=20

During the first round of voting on 14 May, there were lengthy queues across polling stations in Turkey. 

On that day, voters were electing not only a president but parliamentary representatives too. 

The latter elections involved a whopping 26 parties, with some voters struggling to fold their long ballot paper into a narrow envelope. 

Today it's just a small piece of paper with two names: Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu.