{"id":1497,"date":"2025-06-05T08:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T08:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:42:25","slug":"south-korean-opposition-wins-presidency-after-months-of-political-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/2025\/06\/05\/south-korean-opposition-wins-presidency-after-months-of-political-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean opposition wins presidency after months of political chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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South Korea has handed a decisive victory to opposition candidate Lee Jae-myung six months after his predecessor’s martial law bid failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brief yet disastrous move set off huge protests and ended former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s career: impeached and removed from office, he still faces criminal charges for abusing his power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the political chaos that followed means victorious Lee’s biggest challenge is still ahead of him. He must unite a polarised country that is still reeling from it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also faces challenges abroad – crucially, negotiating a trade deal with US President Donald Trump to soften the blow of tariffs from South Korea’s closest ally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His main rival was the ruling party candidate and a former member of Yoon’s cabinet, Kim Moon-soo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had been trailing Lee for weeks in polls and in the early hours of Wednesday, he conceded defeat, congratulating Lee “on his victory”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an earlier speech, Lee had hinted at the win but stopped short of declaring it. He said “recovering” South Korea’s democracy would be his first priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The snap election comes just three years after the 61-year-old lost his last presidential bid by a razor-thin margin to Yoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a remarkable comeback for a man who has been caught in several political scandals, from investigations over alleged corruption to family feuds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysts say Lee’s win is also a rejection of the ruling People Power Party (PPP), which was tarred by Yoon’s martial law order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Voters weren’t necessarily expressing strong support for Lee’s agenda, rather they were responding to what they saw as a breakdown of democracy,” Park Sung-min, president of Min Consulting, told the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The election became a vehicle for expressing outrage… [and] was a clear rebuke of the ruling party, which had been complicit in or directly responsible for the martial law measures.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee’s win, he adds, shows that voters had put South Korea’s democracy “above all else”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Korea has handed a decisive victory to opposition candidate Lee Jae-myung six months after his predecessor’s martial law bid failed. The brief yet disastrous move set off huge protests and ended former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s career: impeached and removed from office, he still faces criminal charges for abusing his power. But the political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indopacera.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}