50,000 South Korean Conservatives Rally to Protest Moon Administration Electoral Reform Bill

This is the largest conservative protest I can remember in quite some time if the 50,000 number is accurate:

The main opposition Liberty Korea Party leader, Hwang Kyo-ahn, makes a speech during a rally against the proposed fast-track of key bills by the ruling Democratic Party and other rival parties, in central Seoul on April 27, 2019. (Yonhap)

The main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) took to the streets Saturday to launch an all-out protest against a joint move by ruling and other rival political parties to fast-track key bills, including an electoral reform.
LKP legislators and party members, wearing red T-shirts with the message, “We will fight till the end” written on them, gathered in central Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square for the demonstration.
The LKP put the estimate of attendees at Saturday’s rally at 50,000. 
LKP leader Hwang Kyo-ahn took the podium and made a resounding speech lashing out at the liberal Moon Jae-in government and the ruling Democratic Party (DP) as those who “try to use the fast-track to their own advantage” so as to gain an upper hand in next year’s parliamentary elections. 
“We’re waging a fair struggle so as to derail this barbaric fast-track action,” he said.
LKP floor leader Na Kyung-won also had her turn at the podium, condemning the move as “an act by the leftists that gravely undermines parliamentary democracy and the Constitution.”

“The leftists are trying to wipe out this country’s free democracy. They have humiliated the National Assembly that represents our people,” she shouted. “The electoral (reform) bill is a tool they need to extend their terms in power for as long as they want.”
Four parties, not including the LKP, agreed Monday to a package deal to fast-track bills on electoral reform, the establishment of a special unit to investigate alleged corruption by high-ranking public officials and enhancement of the police’s authority to conduct probes.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but if the 50,000 number is true the conservative protests are getting larger, but I believe that only if they get over 100,000 does it mean that the general South Korean public is turning on the Moon administration.

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Flyingsword
Flyingsword
5 years ago

Fast Track got passed last night through illegal procedures. Not clear even what they passed. Apparently leftist party also included formation of “special police” to investigate politicians……..I would say for the Korean people protests aren’t enough now.

AppeasingNorthKorea
AppeasingNorthKorea
5 years ago

The vast number of South Koreans remain clueless because the media has been firmly taken over by the Left. They don’t really know what this constitutional change will mean. It means the ruling Left now has the power to ‘investigate’ any Conservative leaders which they don’t like and put them all behind bars – and wipe out the opposition party. There is already Blue House petition which has 300,000 signings (probably started by the Left and all signed by the Leftists) demanding that the Conservative Party be forcibly dissolved. I guess they don’t mind a one-party “democracy”?

charliem
charliem
5 years ago

I hear they used the flash mob tactic to call the vote without letting the LKP know.

setnaffa
5 years ago

Might be too late to fix without a lot of pain

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
5 years ago

These 50000 are the last true Korean patriots. RIP ROK.

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