South Korea President Election

The party of south korean president moon jae in has won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections with voters backing the government s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

South korea president election. A south korean presidential spokesman kan min seok said that president moon expressed hope and cooperation. Of course seoul cannot officially back either candidate. The president is directly elected for a single five year term by plurality vote.

Moon jae in becomes president of south korea presidential elections were held in south korea on 9 may 2017 following the impeachment and dismissal of park geun hye. In february 2020 south korea had the second most cases of any country after china. By election day south korea had recorded over 10 000 cases and 200 deaths.

Local elections are held every four years to elect governors metropolitan mayors municipal mayors and provincial and municipal legislatures. South korea s president moon jae in on december 15 congratulated us president elect joe biden following electoral college sealing the latter s victory in the november 3 presidential election. Elections in south korea are held on a national level to select the president and the national assembly.

A presidential election is scheduled to be held in south korea in 2022 it will be the eighth presidential election since democratization and the establishment of the sixth republic under the south korean constitution the president is restricted to a single five year term in office meaning the incumbent president moon jae in is ineligible to run for a second term. In 1948 1952 1956 1960 in march. Since the establishment of the first republic in 1948 the presidential elections have taken place 20 times 19 excluding the march 1960 election whose results were invalidated after the april revolution.

The election was held during the covid 19 pandemic which had both practical impacts on the conduct of the poll and political impacts on voters choice of parties to support. South korea votes in first national election of coronavirus era this article is more than 7 months old widespread approval of president moon jae in s handling of crisis could boost his party s. South korea s ruling party has won by a landslide in a parliamentary election that attracted the highest voter turn out in 28 years despite being held during the coronavirus pandemic.