South Korean leftwinger Lee Jae-myung set to win presidential election, exit poll shows

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A departure survey, published on Tuesday evening, said that opposition leader Lee Ja-Myung is about to win the South Korean presidential election.

Exit survey by three top South Korean broadcasts LolThe Left Democratic Party candidate, in the first place, is in first place with a 5.7 percent vote of the Conservative People’s Power Party, with a 5.7 percent vote.

The exit survey was widely adjusted with the survey conducted in the last phase of the campaign, but only the citizens voting on the day of the voting were also included. More than a third of the voters have cast their ballot.

Tuesday’s election triggered six months of political unrest in December last year by the then President Yun Suk Eol’s attempt to impose military law. As a result the crisis leads to the anti-controlled National Assembly and by the Uni-curse Removal of it in April By the South Korean Constitutional Court.

The Democratic Party acting leader Park Chan-Day Exit Survey told KBS that the South Koreans had “a burning verdict against the rule of the rebellion.”

Lee, 619, lost to Uni by less than one percent in the South Korean presidential election in 2022. He led the fourth largest economy in Asia when trade tensions with the United States and intense competition from Chinese companies.

The Former factory worker South Korea has promised to expand and invest in public spending on advanced manufacturing capabilities. He is also hoping to improve his country’s relations with China and Russia and try to get close to North Korea.

Tuesday’s voter voting volume was higher than 77 77.5 percent recorded in 77 77.5 percent.

Research Fellow of the Korea Institute for National Union (Kinu) and Polling Specialist Sangsin Lee says it will be the largest of the presidential candidate if it is confirmed by Li’s assume that it will be largest since then. South KoreaDemocraticization in 1987.

“Although 5..7 percent of the majority of the majority of the marginalized may be somewhat above, in the context of Korean politics, it represents a decisionful victory,” he said.

Lee, who propagated the leftist firebrand in 2022, but entered the center after leaving the conservatives’ military law in the center of the military law, he seemed to have earned significant profit in the country’s southeast conservative Heartlands.

“This election can not only be seen as the personal victory of Lea Zay-Myung, but can also be seen as a historic Tihasik turning point in South Korean politics,” Kinur Lee said.