There are more than 44 million voters flocking to the polls tomorrow for the country’s political world to heal the wounds opened by the effort in December.
Citizens will essentially be called upon to decide by a vote in this “special” confrontation, which of the two main candidates, namely the leader of the Democratic Party (DPK) Lee Jae-Miung and the successor of Geol at the steering wheel of the PPP party.
The developments that have led to these elections have been the first essentially major political and constitutional crisis in the country for many decades, during which the country’s political life has been disturbed a few times by major political and economic scandals.
The polls
According to the election measurements, the first in the preferences of voters, is Lee Jae-Miung, the man who, as the leader of the opposition, pioneered both the political world’s reaction to the critical nights of political turmoil in December and in the battles within Parliament.
Montig in some measurements is preceded by up to 50% against his opponent and successor to the deceased President Yayol, Kim Mun Sun who barely collects 40% of voters.
The favorite
Lee is 60 years old and his life is out of book. As a minor he was forced to work in factories to survive, resulting in serious injury and damage to one hand, but managed to become a human rights lawyer and then mayor of Songnam and Governor of the Giengi province of Giengi.
Lee became well known because of his fiery reasons against former President Park Gun Hye after the scandal in 2016-2017, which eventually led to his fall. Similarly, he particularly caught the eyes of the national level with the measures taken as a governor during the Covid period. In the 2022 elections, which Yheol finally won, Lee was in the position of opposition candidate and lost with little difference (he received 47.83% against 48.56% of Yheol).
Lee and his reaction to the coup attempt by his former opponent in the 2022 presidential, were the ones that brought him to be preceded by such a difference from the PPP candidate.
According to the legend in the night that Geol announced the enforcement of military law, his wife conveyed the news that the president had a profession with this content. Lee replied to his wife that he was fake news and that the profession was the result of a deepfake video.
But then he realized that this development was real, and as a result, all Democratic Party MPs order to rush into the building of the National Assembly and vote against Yheol’s decree.
What made the difference, however, was that he made a live stream all his moves to reach the National Assembly and made calls for citizens to gather outside the building.
The successor
Lee’s opponent, Kim Mun Sun, is 73 years old and is considered a hard -core conservative who served as Yun’s Labor Minister.
Although he did not have the “leader” for years, his star shone in the political turmoil that followed the coup attempt by Geol.
The moment he secured him an important role within his party was when he led his party’s refusal to bow to the National Assembly to apologize for Yun’s decree.
He finally took the anointing in the intra -party elections in May, and managed to survive his intra -party opponents who wanted to replace him with another.
It is noted that he too comes from the “popular strata” and in the 1970s and 1980s he was a trade unionist, with left reason and struggles. He later went to the Conservative Camp and since then he has been considered a “traitor”. And he has served as Guyongi’s ruler.
Post -election scenarios and policies
The two opponents go down to the elections with promises to return to political stability, but also to resolve serious and important international issues. Relations with an ever -enhanced and aggressive northern Korea, Trump duties, relations with China, all have a special weight in this match.
Lee, whose party has the majority of seats in the National Assembly, has managed to be more convincing in its ability to limit division. Many, of course, believe that in the event of a victory Lee will be almighty politically.
Lee concentrates positive estimates of how he can manage the financial challenges that the country is facing, such as Trump duties, as well as the cost of the presence of US troops there.
Lee is believed to have not a particularly aggressive foreign policy on North Korea, which is considered positive given that Trump is estimated to prepare a friendship attack on Kim Jong Un.
The bet for himself is whether he will be able to pursue the above policy, along with the commitments he has made that he wants to improve both his country’s relations with China and Russia.
For his part, Kim has pledged to build a new and larger anti -missile system and that it will gain a stronger US commitment to security aimed at tackling North Korea’s nuclear threats. At the same time, in terms of the economy it wants to abolish “anti -business” laws, reduce corporate taxes and inheritance taxes.
