3/6/2025–|Last update: 23:29 (Mecca time)
The results of the sorting of 50 %of the votes of voters in the South Korean presidencies showed the candidate of the left -wing Democratic Party, Lee Jay Meong, after receiving 49.01 %of the votes, followed by his rival Kim Moon Sue, the conservative “Power of the People’s Party”, who received 42.62 %.
Officials announced that the rate of turnout on the vote reached 79.4 %, which is the highest since 1997, and granted a survey of the polling stations prepared by the three major broadcasting bodies nominated for me, and the festive chants of his supporters came to the headquarters of the National Assembly.
On the electoral day, calm prevailed in the streets of the capital, Seoul, while the police announced the highest level of alert and deployed thousands of its elements to ensure the proper functioning of the elections.
The liberal candidate Lee – who survived an assassination attempt last year – fought his election campaign wearing a shot and cast his letters behind a protective glass barrier.
In a speech he gave in front of his house, the voters thanked me for giving him their confidence, considering this as a “great decision” and pledged not to let them down, and he told reporters, “I will do my best to make the great responsibility and task assigned to me, so that I do not disappoint our people.”
As for his rival Kim Moon Sue, he was approved by his defeat in the elections, and he told reporters, “I will accept the humility of the people’s choice” congratulating “the winner candidate,” Lee Jay Meong.
The votes sorting began after the polling stations were closed at eight in the evening local time, with the arrival of the ballot boxes to arrive at the Sports Hall belonging to the National University of Soul in the Guouanak-Go in the South Korean capital.
The period of the presidency in South Korea is limited to one state of 5 years and is supposed to take over his presidential duties almost directly, as soon as the National Elections Committee performs the screening operations, which is likely to happen tomorrow, Wednesday.
It will be assumed by a group of tasks, including taking steps to contain global trade fluctuations that affect the country’s export economy, and to develop plans to address the decline in fertility rate north korea Which is making speedy efforts to enhance its military arsenal.
Opinion polls have appeared for weeks, a large difference to Kim, the Minister of Labor in the Yun government, who suffered partisan disputes and did not succeed in persuading a third party candidate to unify the ranks to avoid the division of the right’s voices.
Emergency repercussions
The elections come 6 months after former President Yun Suk Yol’s attempt to impose martial law, which ultimately led to his isolation. After months of turmoil, many South Koreans expressed their desire to go ahead.
Experts believe that the repercussions of the martial law announced by Yoon, which made South Korea Without leadership in the first months of Donald Trump’s second presidential term, she was a decisive factor in the elections.
“Opinion polls show that the elections are largely a referendum on the previous administration,” said Kang Joe Hyun, a professor of political science at Sogkyung Women’s University.
Yun’s isolation against the background of his attempt to impose the martial law that witnessed the deployment of armed soldiers in Parliament, to make him the second president to face this fate after Park Gion He is in 2017.
Li victory indicates that the Korean voters refuse the measures liberalism And non -democracy, similar to martial law, according to what a sociology professor sees in Stanford University Of a-va.
He continued, “It is likely that this moment will be referred to as a turning point of great importance in the political history of South Korea.”
But the success of me is also due to the failures of his competitors as well as his strengths, according to Miniesion Co, a researcher at the William & Mary Institute for World Research.
Co pointed to a “criminal record” for the “who is involved in several political and personal scandals”, which lost his support for many voters in the presidential entitlement for the year 2022, in reference to a campaign that he nominated for the elections he lost in front of Yun by a slight difference.
He considered that his presidential rise is “a reflection of the deep political turmoil facing South Korea.”