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LAMEDUCK INCUMBENT. Cho Kuk , leader of the South Korean Rebuilding Korea Party, reads a speech during a press conference outside the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office in Seoul on Thursday, a day after the parliamentary elections, during which the RKP capitalized on discontent with the two main parties to pick up 12 seats.
“Prime Minister Han expressed his intention to resign,” a senior presidential official told reporters, according to Yonhap, adding that a slew of senior president’s office officials were also planning to step down after the poll defeat, which leaves President Yoon Suk Yeol a lame duck. “I will humbly honour the will of the people expressed in the general election, reform the state affairs, and do my best to stabilise the economy and people’s livelihood,” Yoon said, according to his chief of staff Lee Kwan-sup.
The landslide was, however, less emphatic than suggested by exit polls, with all opposition parties combined falling short of a super-majority of 200 seats in the 300-strong National Assembly. “Politicians on both sides of the aisle must pool our strength to deal with the current economic crisis. The Democratic Party will lead the way in solving the livelihood crisis,” he told reporters.
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