Uri Party wins majority in elections, exit polls show (South Korea)

Robbien

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Thu Apr-15-04 05:33 AM
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Uri Party wins majority in elections, exit polls show (South Korea)

The liberal, pro-government Uri Party won a majority of seats in the parliamentary elections yesterday, television exit polls showed.
The Uri Party, which supports impeached President Roh Moo-hyun, took between 142 and 188 seats in the 299-member National Assembly, according to KBS.

MBC said the Uri Party captured between 155 and 171 seats, while SBS said Uri took between 157-182 seats.

The KBS polls showed that the main opposition Grand National Party took between 87-129 seats and MBC put the GNP seats between 101-115.

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2004/04/15/200404150063.asp

This is great news. If the GNP party (corporate elites) had won the majority, the BushCo financed impeachment of Roh would have worked because Roh said he would step down. First Spain, then Taiwan and now South Korea! Hopefully the actual votes reflect the exit polls.

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Capt_Nemo

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Thu Apr-15-04 06:18 AM
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1. Woo-hoo!

take that Cheney!

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dusty64

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Thu Apr-15-04 06:56 AM
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2. I guess our regime's

constant meddling in other countries affairs is backfiring.

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Robbien

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Thu Apr-15-04 07:03 AM
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3. Approximately 60% voter turnout

They are counting the votes now and the final results should be known within the hour. The high voter turnout should benefit the liberal party.

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teryang

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Thu Apr-15-04 08:02 AM
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4. Another Cheney failure

Teh sumni da!

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Robbien

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Thu Apr-15-04 08:08 AM
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5. Current vote totals

Edited on Thu Apr-15-04 08:09 AM by Robbien

GNP 100 seats
Uri 131 seats
other 12 seats

Seats yet to be decided 56

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chenGOD

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Thu Apr-15-04 08:20 AM
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6. This is great news.

Edited on Thu Apr-15-04 08:24 AM by chenGOD

I'm thankful as fuck that the South Koreans have started to realise that the GNP is a bunch of power-loving, corporate-cock sucking fascist bastards. Good for Uri-dang. Or as they say in Korean, Uri-dang fighting!!

Robbien, are you in South Korea right now? If so, whereabouts (if you don't mind me asking)?

edited for being a total fuck-up...lol

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Robbien

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Thu Apr-15-04 08:29 AM
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7. No, I am in Chicago

Edited on Thu Apr-15-04 08:35 AM by Robbien

But have been following the power struggles in the East for a little while now.

editing because now I appear crazy responding to something that is not there any more. Ha!

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David__77

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Thu Apr-15-04 10:23 AM
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8. I wish that anti-war candidates had won a majority.

I don't believe that is the case. The president still advocates propping up the occupation forces against Iraq. They're better than the GNP, but not when it comes to Iraq.

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Robbien

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Thu Apr-15-04 11:42 AM
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9. Update on vote totals with 99% of vote counted

"Uri had 129 of 243 seats, and the Grand National Party had 100, the National Election Commission said. Uri will end up with 151 seats once party preference votes in separate proportional representation ballots are counted, according to projections based on commission figures."

and an update for ChenGod on the Democratic Labor Party (you got your wish):

"The election result swings the legislature to the left. The Democratic Labor Party, a union-activist party, will take seats in the National Assembly for the first time, overtaking the Millennium Democrats as the third biggest party. Democratic Labor won 11 seats."

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dArKeR

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Thu Apr-15-04 11:55 PM
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10. South Korea throws out the GNP

AFP , SEOUL
Friday, Apr 16, 2004,Page 5

South Korea's pro-government Uri Party won an overall majority in parliamentary polls here yesterday in a stunning victory for impeached President Roh Moo-hyun, according to partial returns.

The result signaled a shift to the left for South Korean politics, marking the first time in four decades that the country's parliament has been controlled by reformist legislators.

With 72 percent of the vote counted, the Uri Party, which supports Roh's reformist program, won 152 seats in the 299-seat chamber, according to TV projections based on official returns.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/04/16/2003136866

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