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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s prime minister and senior presidential officials offered to resign en masse on Thursday, media reports said, after their conservative ruling party suffered a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections.
Yoon’s ruling People Power Party garnered 109 seats, trailing far behind the liberal Democratic Party of Korea which secured a comfortable majority with 175 seats in the 300-strong parliament. Voter turnout was 67 percent, the highest in 32 years.
Worryingly, India’s external affairs minister S. Jaishankar backed Modi’s assertion at a press conference and spoke of finding a “solution”. Jaishankar’s statements raise the possibility that India could formally assert a claim over the island and that Indian fishermen will demand a return of fishing rights in the waters around it.
SEOUL - South Korea's liberal opposition parties scored a landslide victory in a parliamentary election held on April 10, dealing a resounding blow to President Yoon Suk Yeol and his conservative party but likely falling just short of a super majority.
SEOUL -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's ruling party suffered a drubbing in legislative elections held on Wednesday, with the main opposition party increasing its majority in the National Assembly and casting a cloud over the remainder of his term in office.
SEOUL -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's ruling party appeared set for a significant defeatin national legislative elections held on Wednesday, results of exit polling released by three major South Korean broadcasters showed, with the main opposition party projected to increase its majority.
South Korea’s parliament is set to remain in the hands of liberals for another four years, with the ruling conservative party facing a defeat in parliamentary elections widely seen as a midterm referendum on President Yoon Suk-yeol.
The letter – signed by the six senior judges of the Islamabad High Court and addressed to the nation’s Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa – outlined the judges’ concerns regarding the widespread use of “intimidating” tactics by the Inter-Services Intelligence, the country’s primary intelligence agency, to influence judicial verdicts, particularly in political cases.