
Kim Min-seok leads Democratic Party leadership race with 49.91% cumulative votes after winning Seoul/Gyeonggi primaries; Jung Chung-rae trails with 41.51% ahead of Monday's national convention.
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The Democratic Party of South Korea is electing a new leader ahead of the 2028 parliamentary elections.
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Yonhap) -- Former Prime Minister Kim Min-seok won the Democratic Party (DP) primaries in the capital region Sunday, taking another step toward winning the leadership race for the ruling party.
Kim earned a combined 46.66 percent of the votes from Seoul and Gyeonggi Province, with Jung Chung-rae, pursuing his second consecutive term as DP leader, finishing second at 46.28 percent. Former DP leader Song Young-gil was a distant third with 7.06 percent.
Previously, he beat his rivals in the following rounds: the central Chungcheong region; Incheon and Jeju Island; Gangwon Province, Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province; and Gwangju and Jeolla provinces. Jung staked his claim in Busan, Ulsan and South Gyeongsang Province.
Kim leads the race in cumulative votes with 49.91 percent, and Jung trails him at 41.51 percent. The new leader, expected to play a key role in overseeing the nomination of candidates for the 2028 parliamentary elections, will be elected at the party's national convention Monday.
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