Donald Trump's Victory Not Surprising Amid Brexit Results - Turkish Lawmaker

The victory of the Republican Party's Donald Trump in the US presidential elections has not become a surprise amid the recent results of referendum on the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union, a lawmaker from the Turkish opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) told Sputnik on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, Trump won the US presidential elections despite most of the analysts and opinion polls predicting his defeat to Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton. Trump got 279 electoral votes against Clinton's 228 votes, more than 270 needed to win.

"Donald Trump's victory was not a big surprise for me… The majority of public opinion polls, held ahead of Brexit showed that the United Kingdom would vote to stay in the European Union… The population of the United Kingdom decided not to share with their preferences with pollsters… I think that we can see a similar process in the United States," Oguz Kaan Salici said.

He added that the fact that the US citizens decided to vote for Trump stemmed from the dissatisfaction with the existing system in the United States and the social groups that decided not to voice their support to Trump cast their ballots for the Republican politician, nullifying the results of almost every polls.

On June 23, the United Kingdom held a referendum to determine whether or not the country should leave the European Union. According to the final results, 51.9 percent of voters, or 17.4 million people, decided to support Brexit. The results of the referendum had brought to nothing results of numerous polls showing that the voters in the United Kingdom would back membership of their country in the 28-nation bloc.