Tomorrow the vote, surveys reward Democratic Lee in the post-yoon
The candidates for the foreseen presidential elections in South Korea launched the last appeals, on the eve of the vote that aims to close six months of political turbulence triggered by the clumsy declaration of martial law wanted on December 3 by the former Leader Yoon Suk-Yeol, under accusation and removed from the Presidency in early April.
All the main surveys give Lee Jae -myung, supported by the Democratic Party, clearly ahead in the race, with the last Gallup poll that accredited 49% of support. Conservative Kim Moon-Soo, of the People Power Party, the former Yoon party, is at a disadvantage compared to Lee with 35%, despite having recovered land compared to a 20%gap.
Much more detached, in third position, is Lee Jun-Seok, an exponent of the small conservative new reform party formation, accredited by about 11%.
Lee Jae-Myung will spend most of his last day of the election campaign in his old Roccaforte, the province of Gyeongi, where he previously held the position of governor and built most of his support base. Conservator Kim, on the other hand, started his day since the southern end of the country, the island of Jeju, before heading to the north and concluding his activities in the trendy fashion neighborhood of Gangnam in Seoul, where he will meet the young voters.
Over a third of the voters has already expressed its anticipated vote in the two days of last week, according to the National Electoral Commission: over 15 million voters on the 44.3 million of those entitled, equal to 34.74%. The data is second only to 36.93% in 2022, according to the system introduced in 2014 at national level. The winner of the elections of June 3 will enter the following day for a single mandate of five years, without transition period.
