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Friday, April 13, 2012

Conservatives win South Korean elections


A Conservative Victory in South Korea.
Park Geun-hye (R), leader of the ruling Saenuri Party, and party members smile as they watch a television report on an exit poll of the parliament elections at the party's headquarters in Seoul.  She is the leading candidate for President in the election later this year.


Conservative New Frontier Party holds on to power in legislative elections

  • Conservatives are in a good position for the Presidential election in December.


South Korea's ruling Conservatives have scored an upset victory in a nationwide legislative election. The New Frontier (Saenuri) Party, along with minor parties on the right, are to retain control of the National Assembly for the next four years.  

Economic issues, a spying scandal, and personalities outweighed national security concerns in South Korea's fiercely fought parliamentary election.

An alliance of liberal parties failed to wrest control of the 300-seat National Assembly from the conservatives.  (South Korean election results.)

North Korea made no secret of its preference for an opposition victory here, saying voters should choose “peace and democracy” and “deal a heavy blow to pro-U.S. warlike forces.”

A professor of international politics at Chung-ang University, Lee Cho-won, says South Korean voters have become immune to such rhetoric from Pyongyang.

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The current front-runner to succeed President Lee is the leader of the New Frontier Party, Park Geun-hye. She is the daughter of former president Park Chung-hee, whose 18 years of autocratic rule ended when he was assassinated in 1979 by his own intelligence chief.

(Voice of America)

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