South Korean ruling party scores landslide victory
South Koreans watching the exit polls of the general election at Seoul subway station yesterday. South Korea was among the first countries to hold a national election during the Covid-19 pandemic. – EPA pic, April 16, 2020.
SOUTH Korea’s left-leaning ruling party won a landslide victory in yesterday’s general election, partial results showed, after the coronavirus pandemic turned the political tide in President Moon Jae-in’s favour. 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.
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