South Korea sees the largest turnout in almost 30 years in election held during coronavirus outbreak

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Source: CNN

By Julia Hollingsworth and Jake Kwon, CNN
Updated 2:05 AM ET, Thu April 16, 2020

Seoul (CNN) South Korea's ruling party is expected to have 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.

Early results from Wednesday's election suggest that President Moon Jae-in's Democratic Party has won 180 of the 300 seats in the National Assembly, boosting the party's seats by 60. Full results are expected on Thursday.

If early results are correct, it will be the biggest win by any party since the current democratic constitution was established in 1987.

The election -- which was the first nationwide vote held in a country with a significant coronavirus outbreak -- was also remarkable for its turnout.



Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/asia/south-korea-election-intl-hnk/index.html

[diverdownjt]

1. Their election rewarded the govt. that....

did so well in containing this disaster.

Ours will be to punish the failures of this clown show of an administration.

Go South Korea....Go USA

[gab13by13]

4. You bet, people aren't willing to die for Trump,

the worst is yet to come for us when Trump opens the economy in several states. We don't test; 1% of our population has been tested.

Rachel Maddow had a NYC doctor on last night who told a very scary story. The DR. started testing pregnant women whether they had symptoms or not, what she found was so scary. 1 in 8 women tested positive for coronavirus, extrapolate that to the rest of NYC and that's 1 million people. If pregnant women are the norm and not an abnormality, a lot more people in the US have the virus than is being reported. We are testing less today than we did 2 weeks ago? Why is that? Trump thinks that by not testing he can keep the numbers low and it will be a political win for him all the while he is only making this pandemic last longer in the US. I wear my mask everywhere now when I go out and there hasn't been 1 reported case in my rural county, it's all a lie. Stay safe, when Trump reopens the economy things are going to get nasty. Fauci better speak up now, Blix fell asleep and they snatched her body and Fauci's eyes are looking really tired.

[beachbumbob]

2. We will see the same by democrats and independents all over America come November

the anger is never going away until we clear the GOP trash out of the whitehouse and congress and state and local govt

[Maxheader]

3. Seems parts of the world went kinda nationalistic...

after stumpy arrived..Hard line conservatives being elected..

Why? Because people were being stupid...Believing the conspiracy

accusations, the lies from hard right media .. funded by certain of the 1%er's

And imho, that's not hysteria...I think maybe this killer will unite people,

And we will see how our governments were criminally ill prepared...I mean fuck...

This was a disaster just just waiting to happen...for a long time

[gab13by13]

5. Don't forget Putin,

Putin influenced many elections. Russia is destroying the bonds that have connected the world for decades. Trump is gladly doing Putin's bidding. Trump got out of the peace agreement with Iran, got out of the Paris accord, wants to get out of the WHO, WTO, and NATO. Putin is winning a global war without firing a single shot and he now has right wing nationalists installed in countries all over the world.

[jorgevlorgan]

7. SK of course has a very liberal/ left of center government, and after today it will look more so.

As far as much of the rest of the world, however, you are absolutely right.

[Maxheader]

8. Absolutely..

Everyone has read the warnings..enough times, . We've ignored them..stumpy eliminates the dept for early recognition and response.

[Turbineguy]

6. And the lesson for trump:

Do something right instead of fucking up and you'll win in a landslide!

[treestar]

9. Coronavirus seems to drive up turnout

rather than the expected suppression. Maybe the fear of low turnout gets people out to vote where they might not have without the concern.