Lee Jae-myung Voted Chairman of Opposition Party
If President Yoon and the PPP doesn’t get its act together Lee Jae-myung is going to be very difficult to beat in the next election. Fortunately for the PPP the next presidential election is five years from now and lot can happen between now and then:
Rep. Lee Jae-myung, who narrowly lost the presidential race against rival Yoon Suk-yeol in March, was elected, Sunday, as the chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK).
Korea Times
The latest victory marks an extraordinary comeback for Lee to the party’s mainstream from his defeat in the presidential election. The two-year chairmanship will assure Lee of his right to recommend candidates for the next general election in 2024. He is anticipated to enjoy uncontested power within the party, paving the way for the 57-year-old to make another presidential bid five years from now.
During the DPK’s national convention at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul, Lee secured a total of 77.77 percent of votes to outpace Rep. Park Yong-jin, who garnered 22.23 percent. The number of votes Lee received is the highest on record in the party’s election for a leader.
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It’s not going to take 5 years my friend. There’s already talk of impeachment for the gross incompetence shown by his unquestionable obedience to the US interests while getting Korea into a big hole rut with trade deficits soaring with the US and China (as the US has appropriated and highjacked key South Korean industries with promises of avoiding US sanctions targeting China). Instead, the US has turned around and has backstabbed South Korea His popularity is in the low teens, worse than where PGH was when she was ousted. The media and the ordinary voters, including the voters who voted for him are yelling, “What did you get from the US, for all the things that South Korea gave up?”. Yoon’s reaction is a mad panic rush where he assembles his men and sends them off to the US, to complain to the Biden administration who won’t give him any ear.
In true competent diplomacy, if you give up something big to a country, the general rule is that you should get back something from that same country in return. Yoon just gave more and more and got nothing but a backstabbing from his master, the US. Now his own party members won’t support him saying he’s an incompetent idiot. It’s only a matter of time before he’s brought down with a vote of nonconfidence and/or impeachment for dereliction of duty and for gross negligence and incompetence.
As I predicted, Yoon will not last another year, his Uncle Tom is Uncle Sam – not only did his sucking up to the US, not work at all, he has put South Korea in a very weak position with no cards to play, with the US taking all over all the strengths South Korea had.
As the number of good jobs disappears rapidly, unemployment soars, trade deficits climb to $100 billion this year, as the Korean companies pack up and leave the country, with the encouragement and blessings from the stupid Yoon government who has told the industries in his country to leave for the greener pastures of the US, the level of anger from the young people is soaring. Yoon is going to be the one who will need to explain why he didn’t listen to all the warnings and ignored all the voices that told him, that the US isn’t going to play nice as the birdbrain Yoon thought would.
Lee Jae Myung for President!
Why would jobs leave Korea?
How about some incredibly stupid laws designed by the anti-Korean globalist Moon administration to drive business out of Korea.
Yoon is talking about getting rid of these laws (no action yet).
Why did Korea bounce back from the economic horrors of the Asian Financial Meltdown so quickly?
President Kim pulled government back from being everyone’s business partner. He threw put all the crappy laws designed by big business and greedy government to drain small business.
That needs to happen again.
Talks of impeachment aside.
President Yoon and the PPP don’t have five years to get their act together as @GIKorea says.
They have actually about 20 months.
The next parliamentary elections is on April 10th 2024, about 590 days away.
If the PPP can’t secure a majority in the National Assembly, there will be in addition to a lame duck Yoon presidency, questions of the relevancy of the PPP.
That and the current spats within the PPP will probably get worse with more finger pointing potentially leading to the PPP splitting into two parties. One with the original PPP members and the other with Yoon supporters.
If the above happens, it will give the DPK a very good chance of reclaiming the presidency in 2027, unless of course they mishandle their given chance and screw up big time.