China News Service, Seoul, March 10 (Reporter Liu Xu) According to data released by South Korea's Central Election Management Commission on the 10th local time, South Korea's largest opposition party, National Power Party candidate Yin Xiyue won the 20th presidential election and was elected as a new term. President.
Data map: Yin Xiyue
At about 6:00 local time on the 10th (5:00 Beijing time), the South Korean Central Election Management Commission completed 100% of the votes for the presidential election.
According to statistics, Yin Xiyue won 48.56% of the vote, followed by Lee Jae-ming, the ruling party's Democratic Party candidate, with 47.83%.
South Korea's 20th presidential election will be officially voted on on the 9th.
A total of 14 candidates have been registered for this presidential election. Among them, An Zhexiu, the candidate of the Kuomintang Party, announced his abandonment in the final stage and joined forces with Yin Xiyue.
New Wave Party candidate Kim Dong-yan dropped out and announced his support for Common Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung.
According to statistics released by the Central Election Administration Commission of South Korea, the final turnout rate in this presidential election was 77.1%, which was 0.1 percentage points lower than the previous general election and basically the same.
Yin Xiyue said after winning the election on the 10th that the election result "is a victory for the great people".
He also said that in the process of preparing to form a cabinet as an elected and formally performing his duties as president, he will negotiate with the opposition party to govern the country and serve the people well, and said that he will regard national unity as the primary task of governance.
Lee Jae-ming also held a press conference at the Central Party Headquarters of the Common Democratic Party in the early morning of the same day, admitting that he was defeated in the 20th presidential election.
Lee Jae-myung also congratulated the newly elected President Yin Xiyue, hoping that Yin Xiyue can open an era that transcends divisions and contradictions.
Yin Xiyue was born in a high-level intellectual family in Seoul in 1960. During her work in the procuratorial system, Yin Xiyue played an important role in investigating and handling many major corruption and bribery cases. President Park Geun-hye.
In 2017, Yin Xiyue was appointed as the chief prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office.
In 2020, Yin Xiyue and the then Minister of Justice Qiu Meiai, who was pushing for the reform of the procuratorial system, became increasingly conflicted, and finally resigned in March 2021.
In June 2021, Yin Xiyue announced her participation in the 20th presidential election, and joined the National Power Party, South Korea's largest opposition party, at the end of July. She is the first president without parliamentary political experience since South Korea implemented the presidential election system.
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