‘Trump Phenomenon’ Spreads to S Korea Amid Voter Outrage
SputnikNews.com
25.11.2016
Shaken by a corruption scandal that involves its President, South Korea might elect its own ‘Donald Trump’ in an overwhelming voter dissatisfaction with inequality, inefficiency and nepotism prominent in the nation’s social reality.
Kristian Rouz – In the aftermath of Brexit in the UK, the likely election of a right-wing candidate for President of Austria, and the stunning ascent of Donald Trump to power in the US, a pivot to the political right is becoming a global phenomenon. Voter dissatisfaction with career politicians and the lack of transparency in the highest echelons of state governance has reached South Korea, where the recent corruption scandal involving the acting President Park Geun-hye has propelled the ‘Korean Trump’ higher in opinion polling roughly one year ahead of the presidential election.
Lee Jae-myung, mayor of a town in the vicinity of Korea’s capital, Seoul, has attracted favorable feedback from voters recently. Notable for his Trump-style rhetoric, and compared by many observers to Bernie Sanders, the North American ‘revolutionary’ firmly anchored in the radical anti-globalist left, Lee Jae-myung is aiming to be elected into office next year. His agenda includes the dramatic decrease of South Korea’s exposure to transnational corporations, rapprochement with North Korea, and putting acting president Park in prison over the corruption allegations.
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