The current mayor who had to win the elections twice is convicted to 2 years, 7 month and 15 days of prison for insulting public officials. Essentially, when a

The current mayor who had to win the elections twice is convicted to 2 years, 7 month and 15 days of prison for insulting public officials. Essentially, when answering a question he said "those who canceled the elections are idiots" and in the context of the question he doesn't mean the people he is accused of insulting and the ruling was criticised even by many Erdogan supporters. He was expected to be the candidate for president because he is very poplar but because his sentence is longer than 2 years, once the ruling is approved(the appeal is still being reviewed by the higher court) he will have to leave his public office and go to prison.