More About the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly elections

The imperialist and bourgeois mainstream media and its spin off social media have been slandering the results of the elections for the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly. These attacks on the popular democratic electoral system of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK ) or People Korea have made much of the fact that 0.07 per cent of those who voted against .

The Korean Central News Agency reported as follows ; “According to the election returns, 99.99 percent of all the voters registered on the voter rolls across the country attended the election. 0.0037 percent of the voters failed to take part in the election as they are currently abroad or working in oceans and 0.00003 percent abstained.

99.93 percent of the electors balloted for and 0.07 percent against. As a result, under the Law of the DPRK on the Elections of Deputies to the People's Assemblies at All Levels, 687 workers, farmers, intellectuals, servicepersons and officials were elected to be SPA deputies..”

Many of the criticisms of the DPRK’s electoral system are very ignorant. A large number of commentators have referred to “parliamentary elections “ in the DPRK or the “rubber stamp parliament “  when in fact the DPRK does not have  a parliament but a Supreme People’s Assembly , an organ of people’s power which does not consist of professional career politicians like in the West . In fact many deputies of the Supreme People’s Assembly are actually ordinary workers even street cleaners .How many workers or poor people were elected to the UK parliament at the 2024 general election ? Maybe 2 or 3 out of 600 Members of Parliament , if that , probably it was none.

The DPRK Supreme People’ Assembly elections had a much higher turnout than elections in capitalist countries 99.99 per cent compared to 59.9 per cent in the last UK general election. In some working class areas of the UK voting in elections is seen as a middle class thing so the working class is effectively disenfranchised , some do not bother to register to vote in elections.

In fact in the DPRK voters have a democratic right they do not have in the West they can vote against the list . In most Western countries you cannot vote to reject all candidates.

So why did 0.07 of the DPRK vote against ? Well who would be against free housing and virtually free food ? It would be crazy to do so !

The fact that only 0.07 per cent voted against the list in the DPRK is testimony the  single-hearted unity in the DPRK and the solidity of the socialist system. In People's Korea there is no bourgeoisie or capitalists to  vote against the electoral  list . There are some residual class enemies and reactionaries(probably descendants of the overthrown exploiting class  who did not go to the south  ) but one day even these will no longer exist .People's Korea is a true country of single hearted unity.