South Korea recently held by-elections for local chiefs and legislators, and the ruling party led by South Korean President Moon Jae-in is in crisis after the opposition party with an anti-communist stance won a landslide victory. Taiwanese media analyzed that the big defeat of Moon by South Korea’s anti-communist party is good news for the global anti-communist coalition, but it is a bad year for Xi Jinping.
South Korea held local elections on April 7, and the results were announced in the early hours of April 8, with Moon Jae-in’s Common Democratic Party (CDP) losing big and the regime lighting up in red.
According to Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s largest opposition party, the National Power Party, won a landslide victory in the by-elections for Seoul mayor and Busan mayor. The opposition party won 19 out of 23 constituencies, while the ruling party won only 4 constituencies.
In Seoul, National Power Party candidate Oh Se-hun defeated Common Democratic Party candidate Park Young-sun with a record 57.5% of the vote.
In Busan, KMT candidate Park Hyung Jun beat the ruling party’s candidate Kim Yong Chun (34.42%) with 62.97% of the vote.
On April 8, Oh Sehun won the mayorship of Seoul and celebrated with his team members.
On the morning of the same day, Oh Sae-hun paid a visit to Hyeonchungwon and wrote in the guestbook, “Seoul is back on its feet, and the Republic of Korea is standing upright.
On the other hand, Park Hyung Jun said that he would repay the citizens who supported him during the difficult time with quality municipal work.
In the afternoon of the 8th, the top management of the Common Democratic Party, which was defeated in the election, announced their resignation, and Moon said he would seriously accept the accountability of the people.
Taiwanese media New Head Shell reported that Moon’s party has always held a pro-communist stance, making the international anti-communist coalition resist hard. Now with Moon’s big defeat, the situation is getting worse for Beijing authorities, and it is really a bad year for Xi Jinping.
The Wall Street Journal said that the election results officially announced that the Moon Jae-in government has entered a lame-duck state, and also foretold that the presidential election in South Korea next March will probably change the sky. The National Power Party is likely to continue the momentum of this victory and win the presidential election next year.
The report said that the ups and downs of the epidemic in South Korea, triggering public discontent, coupled with the outbreak of land speculation scandal of public officials before the election, as well as the soaring prices in Seoul, the ruling party has lost the hearts of the people and collapsed.
James Kim, a researcher at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a South Korean think tank, said, “This mayoral election has become a referendum on the ruling party.”
Reports suggest that if the National Power Party, which has a hard-line stance against the Communist Party of China, comes to power next year, South Korea’s diplomatic course is likely to make a major U-turn.
During U.S. Secretary of State John Blinken’s visit to South Korea in March, Kim Jong-in, acting leader of the KMT, said South Korea should join the “Quadrilateral Security Dialogue” between the U.S., Japan, Australia and India to counter the Chinese Communist threat.
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