On Friday, Imamoglu said he was still ahead of his rival by 18,742 votes after the recount.
"From what I see, it should end this weekend. It will fall into an 18,000-20,000 range," Imamoglu told Fox News, a U.S. television news channel.
Also on Friday, the AKP applied for the annulment of local elections in Istanbul's Buyukcekmece district, but the provincial election board rejected its bid.
However, the controversy seems to linger as Erdogan, also chairman of the AKP, hinted on Friday that he would push for all stages of election courts to contest the election results.
"If the results of the provincial electoral councils don't overlap with ours, then the Supreme Election Council is the final decision-maker for us," he said after four days of silence.
The provincial election boards will settle the objections in three days by April 10. The parties have the right to carry these objections to the Supreme Election Council afterward and the Council has to make a final decision by April 13.
Even if the opposition secures the votes in Ankara and Istanbul, Erdogan has signalled that he would curb the powers of the opposition mayors through the budgets of their cities.
Erdogan stated that the mayor-elected will see the challenge of the ruling party's majority in the city council, although the high board has yet to declare the vote distribution of municipal assemblies.
"If a mayor lacks majority support in the municipal assembly, he cannot form commissions as he pleases nor shape the budge as he wishes," Erdogan said. Istanbul manages a huge budget of more than 4 billion U.S. dollars for 2019.
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