{"id":47304,"date":"2025-04-27T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=47304"},"modified":"2025-04-27T14:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:30:14","slug":"south-koreas-main-opposition-party-taps-former-party-chief-as-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/south-koreas-main-opposition-party-taps-former-party-chief-as-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s Main Opposition Party Taps Former Party Chief as Presidential Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s main liberal opposition party tapped Sunday its former leader Lee Jae-myung as presidential candidate in the upcoming June 3 vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party said Lee has won nearly 90% of the votes cast during the party\u2019s primary that ended Sunday, defeating two competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, a liberal who wants greater economic parity in South Korea and warmer ties with North Korea, has solidified his position as front-runner to succeed recently ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol.<\/p>\n<p>Lee had led the opposition-controlled parliament\u2019s impeachment of Yoon over his imposition of martial law before the Constitutional Court formally dismissed him in early April. Yoon\u2019s ouster prompted a snap election set for June 3 to find a new president, who\u2019ll be given a full, single five-year term, The AP news reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, 60, lost the 2022 election to Yoon in the narrowest margin recorded in the country\u2019s presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>He is the clear favorite to win the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s main liberal opposition party tapped Sunday its former leader Lee Jae-myung as presidential candidate in the upcoming June 3 vote. The Democratic Party said Lee has won nearly 90% of the votes cast during the party\u2019s primary that ended Sunday, defeating two competitors. Lee, a liberal who wants greater economic parity in South &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47306,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47304\/revisions\/47306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}