NSTworld: SouthKorea’s left-leaning ruling party won a landslide victory in Wednesday’s general election.
The country uses a mix of first-past-the-post seats and proportional representation, but even before all the individual constituencies were decided, Moon’s Democratic party had taken 163 seats in the 300-member National Assembly, an absolute majority.
The main conservative opposition United Future Party and its satellite party were forecast to secure a total of 97 seats.Just a few months ago scandals over power abuse and sluggish economic growth threatened the left-leaning president, with critics calling his dovish approach towards North Korea – despite Pyongyang’s abandonment of its nuclear and ballistic missile test moratoriums – unrealistic.
Lee Nak-yon , South Korea's former prime minister and candidate of the ruling Democratic Party, and his wife Kim Suk-hee hold flowers in a sign of victory in the parliamentary elections, at his office in Seoul. -AFP All voters were required to wear protective masks, clean their hands with sanitiser and don plastic gloves, and undergo temperature checks on arrival at the polling station.
In a photo taken on April 15, 2020 defector and former North Korean diplomat Thae Yong Ho speaks to the media before securing a majority vote in his Gangnam constituency on behalf of the conservative United Future Party during South Korea's parliamentary elections, at his campaign headquarters in the Gangnam district of Seoul. - AFP
The conservative party had “failed to rebrand” itself after the impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye, which “limited the boundary of support to older generations and core support regions“, Ji Yeon Hong, a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, told AFP.
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