HDP deputy chairman Mithat Sancar said the fact that the campaign was held under emergency rule while the party's co-leaders were under arrest, that its candidates for polling station monitors were rejected, and that state resources were used in the "yes" campaign all undermined the vote.
Opposition parties have complained of a series of irregularities, particularly an electoral board decision to accept ballots without official stamps, as required by Turkish law. Some voters had been unable to cast their ballots in private, he also said.
A legal complaint was filed on Wednesday against Turkey's Supreme Election Board (YSK) over the counting of unsealed ballot papers in Sunday's referendum, an opposition lawmaker has confirmed. "You can not build a change in the political system on such a controversial and unfair referendum".
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers a speech during a rally of supporters a day after the referendum, at his palace, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 17, 2017.
But he said the AKP would not hold a party congress until 2018, indicating Erdogan would not officially become its leader until then, despite widespread expectations that it would happen nearly immediately.
In addition, changes to Turkey's executive branches will effectively abolish the position of prime minister, turning Erdogan's presidential role from a largely ceremonial one to an active one. In the months before the referendum, more than a dozen HDP parliamentarians were thrown in prison on terrorism charges as were hundreds of party members.
Opposition parties including the main opposition CHP and the pro-Kurdish HDP had called on the electoral board to annul Sunday's vote, which was narrowly won by the "Yes" camp, because unstamped ballot papers were included.
"We demand the cancelation of this referendum", Bulent Tezcan said, as quoted by AP.
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CHP party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu also accused the electoral board of bias and favoring Erdogan's party.
"Calling people to the street is wrong and is outside the line of legitimacy", Yildirim said.
Supporters of the "no" vote, chant slogans during a protest against the referendum outcome, on the Aegean Sea city of Izmir, Turkey, Tuesday, April 18, 2017.
A State Department statement on the referendum cited "observed irregularities on voting day and an uneven playing field during the hard campaign period, which took place during a state of emergency".
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday a critical report by European observers on the referendum contained several mistakes which he believed were deliberate.
Mr Erdogan told supporters on Monday that Turkey did not "see, hear or acknowledge the politically motivated reports" of the monitors.
The new system outlined under the constitutional changes will take full effect at the next election, slated for November 2019. However, numerous changes are expected to be implemented much sooner.
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