Commentary: Coronavirus? Not a problem for South Korea elections this week

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With control over the outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic need not take over the agenda or make the vote treacherous, says Robert E Kelly.

South Korea’s parliament, the National Assembly, is elected every five years. Composed of 300 members, it has 253 single-member district seats and 47 proportional representation seats.The left currently holds a slim majority, but the distribution of power is fluid. South Korea’s political party landscape is fragmented.in this election. Most of them are minor, but the proportional representation seats are a constant temptation for the formation of off-shoot and splinter parties.

As in typical in presidential systems, where the legislature is elected independently of the executive, legislators are loath to simply line up behind the executive as in a parliamentary system. The upshot is that both right and left are fractured. Each side has one large-ish party aspiring, and failing, to be a big-tent party – the Democratic Party on the left, and United Future Party on the right.Scattered around them are splinter parties who refuse to formally adjoin to the aspiring big tent leader. These dynamics do not appear to be changing in this election.

Here one of the world’s oldest democracy particularly has a lot to learn. This is a presidential election year in the US. There are both primary elections in the spring and a general election in the autumn months.There is a wide-ranging debate in the US now about how to conduct those elections.

 

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