The opposition bloc won a landslide victory in the general election, but the ruling bloc managed to defend the 100-seat threshold that could otherwise have deprived President Yoon Suk Yeol of his veto power, a vote count showed on Thursday morning. As well as being a second victory in a row for the center-left, the vote outcome also indicated that the regional divide still stands in South Korean politics. Ballot coun.
The new National Assembly of 300 members selected in Wednesday’s general election will be devoid of any independent members for the first time in over five decades. A total of 58 candidates without any political party affiliation ran in 254 constituency races, but none prevailed. The Assembly previously lacked a nonpartisan representative three past sessions spanning from 1963 through 1972. But that was before .
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