NK News: South Korea’s ruling party on course to win legislative elections: exit polls
South's Democratic party has pursued a policy of engagement and reconciliation with North Korea
South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party (DP) and its satellite Civil Together Party (CTP) may have secured a historic majority in this week’s legislative elections, a joint exit poll by South Korean broadcasters projected as voting ended on Wednesday evening.
The exit poll by Korea Election Pool (KEP), reported by broadcasters KBS, MBC, SBS, forecasted that the ruling party and the CTP is set to win between 153 and 178 seats in the South’s National Assembly out of a total 300 seats.
If confirmed, the results will represent the largest majority for a liberal South Korean political party in 16 years.
The main opposition United Future Party (UFP) and its satellite Future Korea Party (FKP), in turn, is expected to win between 107 to 133 parliamentary seats.
Full results are expected early Thursday morning.
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WNU Editor: In times of crisis. And this pandemic is a mother of a crisis. The electorate in democracies do not have a habit of changing governments. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his ruling Democratic Party (DP) have not been popular for the past year. But I am not surprised by the exit polls showing that he is heading for a historic win. The South Korean electorate have been shaken by this pandemic, and they are not even remotely ready to change the government. I predict the same result is going to happen in other countries, the U.S. included.
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