SEOUL, Jun 11 (NNN-YONHAP) – A 36-year-old politician was elected today, as the youngest-ever chief of South Korea’s main conservative party.
Lee Jun-seok won 43.8 percent of the ballots, cast online and by telephone, in the major conservative People Power Party convention. The voting continued from Monday to Thursday among party members and ordinary citizens.
Lee was followed by former four-term lawmaker, Na Kyung-won, who secured 37.1 percent of the ballots, and current five-term lawmaker, Joo Ho-young, who garnered 14.0 percent of support. Both Na and Joo served as floor leaders of the People Power Party.
Lee was defeated by Na in the voting among party members, but he won a landslide victory in the opinion poll for ordinary citizens.
It was the first time in the country’s modern political history that anyone in his or her 30’s, was elected as leader of the ruling or the main opposition party.– NNN-YONHAP
