South Korea’s prime minister and senior presidential officials submitted their resignations on Thursday after a nationwide election cemented the opposition's control of parliament.
South Korea’s prime minister and senior presidential officials have offered to resign en masse following Wednesday’s parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and all senior presidential advisers to conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol submitted their resignations, according to Yoon’s office, after Wednesday’s elections dealt a huge blow to Yeol’s party.
With most of the votes counted, the main opposition Democratic Party and its satellite party appeared to have won a combined 175 seats in the 300-member National Assembly, according to South Korean media tallies. Yoon’s ruling People Power Party was projected to have obtained 108 seats. The final official results were expected later Thursday.
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