In South Korea, the mayoral elections for Seoul and Busan (Busan), which are considered to be the outpost of the presidential election next year, were held on the 7th.
KBS, a public broadcaster, said that in each election, the candidate for the largest opposition party suppressed the candidate for the ruling party that supports the Moon Jae-in administration and ensured the election.
Voting for the mayoral elections in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and Busan, the second largest city, is closed after 8 pm on the 7th, and the ballot counting is underway.
Public broadcast of KBS 7 days night,
▽ Mr. Oh Se-hoon of the Seoul mayor largest opposition party "People's Power" of conservative in the election is
also,
▽ also said Park Hyun of the largest opposition party in the mayoral election of Busan is,
both He said that he had suppressed the candidates for the ruling party that supported the Mun Jane administration and secured the election.
The election to decide the top of the two major cities is a composition in which the ruling and opposition parties confront each other, and it was positioned as a prelude to the presidential election in March next year.
According to the Election Commission, the provisional turnout was
58.2% in Seoul
and 52.7% in Busan.
This was lower than the mayoral election three years ago, but KBS analyzes that voters were highly interested in the fact that this election was held on weekdays.