Lee Jay Meongy wins the South Korean presidency

South Korea handed over a decisive victory to opposition candidate Lee Jay-Mayong, six months after the failure of the predecessor’s combat law.

The short and catastrophic step began in the huge protests and ended former President Yoon Sok Yol: he was isolated and removed from his post, and he is still facing criminal charges to offend his authority.

But the political chaos that followed this means that the biggest challenge that me has achieved for me is in front of him. He must unite a stable country that still suffers from everything.

He also faces challenges abroad – decisively, negotiating a trade agreement with US President Donald Trump to reduce the blow of definitions from the nearest ally of South Korea.

His main rival was the ruling party candidate and a former member of the Cabinet, Yun, Kim Moon Soo.

He was lagging behind me for weeks in opinion polls and in the early hours of Wednesday, he acknowledged defeat, and congratulated me “for his victory.”

In a previous speech, I hinted at me to win but stopped announcing it. He said that the “restoration” of South Korea’s democracy will be his first priority.

The sudden elections come just three years after the 61 -year -old lost his last presidential show with a high razor to Yoon.

It is a great return to a man who was arrested in many political scandals, from investigations into alleged corruption to family differences.

Analysts say Lee’s victory is also a refusal of the ruling power party (PPP), which was similar to the Joon Martial Law.

“Voters were not necessarily a strong support for a business schedule, but rather they responded to what they saw as a detail of democracy,” Park Song Min, Maine President of Consulting, told the BBC.

“The elections became a way to express anger … (and) were a clear reprimand for the ruling party, which was complicit in combat rulings or directly responsible.”

He adds that a victory shows that the voters put the democracy of South Korea “above all.”

Yun’s departure also left his former party divided and in a state of chaos, while delaying the fighting on the announcement of a presidential candidate until early May.

The chaos in PPP only exceeded Yun, where two of the prosecutors who continued, before returning one of them – a sign of how the controversial South Korean policy appeared.

All this definitely helped the opposition Democratic Party and its candidate for me, who indicated more stability.

But while he won the elections, his challenges are not over.

He faces a trial in the Supreme Court on charges of violating the election law. The court postponed the trial until after the elections to avoid intervention because the conviction could prevent it from competition.

But it is not clear if it is being convicted now, although the law says that sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted due to criminal crimes, except for rebellion or treason.

I had a controversial profession in which he built a sincere base, but it also led to denunciation, rejection and transgression of what some called in a detector style.

He spoke frankly about a difficult childhood in a working class family, before he went to the college and became a human rights lawyer.

Then he turned into a political profession, and made his way even – in 2022 – became their presidential candidate. He carried a more liberal platform, and promised to address gender inequality, for example.

But after losing the vote, he installed it, and this time he chose to move more towards the center and play it safer with its policies.

In his position, he will also need to reach the corridor and work with the Pakistani People’s Party, a party that clashed regularly during the term of Yun. But he may need some of them to work with him to rebuild the public confidence and reform a broken country.

Park said: “years of escalating polarization under both the Moon and Yun (previous) departments left the political scene of South Korea divided bitterly,” Park said.

“He may talk to me about national unity, but he faces a deep dilemma: how to continue accountability for what many see as an attempt to rebel without deepening the same divisions that seeks to recover.”

Despite the loss of PPP, Yoon still has a strong and sound support base – and is unlikely to disappear any time soon.

They often repeat his supporters, especially young voters, male and the elderly, and many of them believe that his declaration of martial law is necessary to protect the country.

Also, many conspiracy theories, believing that Yun’s party was a victim of fraud in the elections.

Thousands protested his isolation, and in January, shortly after his arrest, a crowd of crowds stormed a courtroom and the attack of police officers.

With Yun’s going, there are questions about who may fill this void of his base.

One of the names appeared in particular: Lee John Siuk, who also nominated the president, but came out earlier on Tuesday, when the ballot boxes suggested that he was very late, with only 7.7 % of the votes.

However, he was very popular among many young people because of his anti -feminine views, which reminded some of Yun, who became equality with women as a stable topic.

Young people came out in their thirties with higher numbers than usual to vote this time, which he partially drew by candidates such as Lee John-Siuk. Those who want to hold the government led by the Pacts People’s Party, and others who want to ensure that Lee Jay-Mayung’s presidency has decreased, which led to the demand of this year to 79.4 %-the highest since 1997.

However, it is not only the healing of these divisions at home that would keep me busy in the near future. It also faces urgent challenges abroad, such as moving in the US coalition within the framework of the new Trump administration.

“The urgent local challenges in South Korea are intertwined with global dynamics,” said Mr. Park.

He said that the commercial deal with the United States tops the agenda, with slow demand and slow growth that is already harmful to the economy.

Lee – a seasoned politician – goes to his position with all this, and in the early hours I promised to voters in South Korea.

He told me the journalists: “I will do my best to achieve the great responsibility and the task that I have entrusted to me, so that I do not disappoint the expectations of our people.”