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		</div><p>A candidate in Turkey’s presidential election has announced that he is withdrawing from the race in a move that is likely to bolster President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main challenger.</p>
<p>Muharrem Ince, the leader of the centre-left Homeland Party, was one of four contenders running for president in the May 14 election.</p>
<p>He has faced intense criticism for splintering the votes of the six-party Nation Alliance, which has united behind the candidacy of main opposition party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, and of possibly forcing the presidential race into a second round.</p>
<p>“I am withdrawing from the race,” Mr Ince told reporters. “I am doing this for my country.”</p>
<p>Ince had polled around 8% of the votes when his candidacy was announced but his popularity ratings have dropped to around 2%, according to opinion polls.</p>
<p>Mr Ince said the Homeland Party, which he formed in 2021, would still run in the parliamentary elections, and he called for votes for the party “from each household”.</p>
<p>The 58-year-old former physics teacher ran against Mr Erdogan in presidential elections in 2018 under the ticket of Mr Kilicdaroglu’s main opposition party, CHP. He garnered around 30% of the votes but later broke away from the party.</p>
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