SEOUL - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol cast his ballot as two days of early voting for next week's parliamentary elections kicked off on Friday (April 5), in which his ruling party seeks to retake a majority in the opposition-controlled assembly. More than 3.5 million people, or about 8 per cent of eligible voters, had cast their ballots at..
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol casts his early vote for 22nd parliamentary election, in Busan, South Korea, on April 5, 2024.SEOUL - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol cast his ballot as two days of early voting for next week's parliamentary elections kicked off on Friday , in which his ruling party seeks to retake a majority in the opposition-controlled assembly.
Yoon cast his ballot alongside several aides at a station in the southern port city of Busan, where he was expected to attend a business event. He has encouraged people to go to the polls for the April 10 elections, saying it is not only citizens' right but also responsibility. A failure could undercut Yoon's key initiatives to boost the economy, fiscal health and birthrates, as well as to bolster trilateral security co-operation with the United States and Japan.
The democrats had long been deemed to have an edge in early voting. But the conservative PPP chief, Han Dong-hoon, was keen to drum up support from younger voters, highlighting corruption scandals engulfing opposition leaders which had disillusioned many people and eventually helped Yoon win the 2022 presidential election.
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