The People Power Party filed lawsuits to nullify elections, including the Seoul mayoral race, citing a shortage of ballots and voting suspensions in the June 3 local elections.
The People Power Party's legal advisory committee said on the 27th that it filed nullification suits for 10 elections in total, including six for metropolitan mayors and proportional representation seats for metropolitan councils in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon, and four related to Songpa District. It submitted the complaints for the Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon races to the Supreme Court in the morning, and plans to file the four Songpa-related cases sequentially with the competent high court by the 28th.
Earlier, the National Election Commission and the city and provincial election commissions dismissed all 122 election petitions filed by the People Power Party, saying the ballot shortage and voting suspensions did not affect the results.
The People Power Party says it is hard to determine how many voters gave up voting due to the suspension, so it cannot be concluded that there was no impact on the results. In particular, it believes the proportional representation race for the Seoul Metropolitan Council, where the two parties' vote gap was only 7,524, was likely affected in party vote totals and seat allocation by the suspensions.
Kim Tae-gyu, the People Power Party's legal advisory committee chair, said, "It is hard to accept that the National Election Commission acknowledged its own legal violations yet dismissed the petitions, saying there was no effect on the results," and added, "Because this concerns the people's right to vote and the fairness of elections, the court should closely examine the illegality in the management of the election and its impact and hand down a strict ruling."