South Korea's ruling party wins election landslide amid coronavirus outbreak
by Justin McCurry in Tokyo and agencies in Seoul from Science | The Guardian on (#52776)
Voters reward Moon Jae-in for response to pandemic with biggest majority since transition to democracy in 1987
South Korea's ruling party has won a landslide victory in national assembly elections, in what is being seen as an endorsement of President Moon Jae-in's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Moon's left-leaning Democratic party and its smaller affiliate won 180 seats in the 300-seat assembly - the biggest majority in the national assembly by any party since South Korea's transition to democracy in 1987 - according to the Yonhap news agency. The conservative opposition United Future party and its smaller sister party won 103 seats.
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