Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon and National Assembly candidate Ahn Chul-soo were unable to conclude negotiations for unification of candidates even on the 17th, one day before the registration of the Mayor of Seoul. The two sides are in the position of continuing negotiations overnight, but the possibility of single candidate registration on the 19th, which was an agreement between the candidates at first, is unlikely.
On-site pool) Mayor Oh Se-hoon (left) and Mayor Ahn Cheol-soo of the People’s Party of Seoul have a photo time prior to the Candidate Unified TV Debate hosted by Channel A at The Plus Studio in Yeongdeungpo, Seoul on the afternoon of the 15th. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
On this day, the unified working-level negotiation team of both sides met at the National Assembly at 8:30 am and began negotiations, but they continued to run parallel. Candidate Oh accepted the’competitiveness’ asserted by Candidate Ahn’s instead of the’candidate suitability’ that was initially asserted as a poll question, but the position was changed again over the poll method. Candidate Ahn’s side preferred the method of extracting 100% of the phone numbers of the survey subjects from wireless phones, while Candidate Oh’s side insisted on including 10% of landline phones (home phones).
People’s Power Secretary General Yang-seok Chung met with reporters, “We accept competitiveness. (Instead) Would you like to conclude a conclusion at around 9:1, including 10% of the wired lines.” On the other hand, Lee Tae-gyu, secretary general of the People’s Party, said, “(Including the wire number), we are completely handicap to enter.” In general, it is the norm that the respondents of fixed-line telephones have a strong conservative tendency.
As negotiations were sluggish on this day, the argument that “you can do a single day of public opinion polls” was strengthened. Secretary-General Lee said, “You only have to do (public opinion polls) until 6 pm on the 19th (the deadline for registration of candidates). “I can do it for a day and a half tomorrow morning.” Secretary-General Chung also said, “(If agreed tonight), you can conduct a poll of about a day and a half. Even so, it’s a sample of 1000 people, so you only need to get the results the next day in the morning.”
In the worst case, the negotiating team is also considering a plan to continue negotiations until the date of printing the ballot (29th). In this case, the names of’No. 1 Together with Democratic Party Park Young-seon’,’No. 2 People’s Power Oh Se-hun’, and’No. 4 People’s Party Ahn Cheol-soo’ are written on the ballot. If one of the two opposition candidates resigns before the 29th,’resignation’ is specified in red in the signifier column of the final resigned candidate.
Jeong Yang-seok, secretary general of the People’s Power (back) and Lee Tae-gyu, secretary-general of the National Assembly Party, are attending the 4th meeting of the 4th working-level negotiation for the unification of Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon and Ahn Cheol-soo held at the National Assembly on the afternoon of the 17th. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
However, in the opposition, there is a growing voice saying, “When we are in a hurry, we will say’I will put it all down’, and the approval ratings rise together, so we are fighting without making concessions.” Candidate Oh made a conditional declaration in January saying, “If (Candidate Ahn) is accepted or is worthy, he will not run for office”, and Ahn has always emphasized “grand integration”. “The appearance of Candidate Oh and Ahn is far from unification to win the opposition,” said former lawmaker Na Gyeong-won, who fought against Candidate Oh and in the party contest, on the Facebook page. He criticized that we should go to’unification that wins together’, not’unification that we don’t want to do.’ Rep. Jang Je-won of the same party said, “Let’s do rock paper scissors. It is much better than the poll phrases hurt feelings and the results hurt,” he said. “I ask the two candidates to play a decisive role in the consolidation and victory of the opposition in any way, through a massive concession.”
On this day, as the negotiations for unification suffered difficulties, sharp expressions between the two parties went back and forth. Ahn Hye-jin, a spokesman for the People’s Party, said on the radio that morning, targeting Kim Jong-in, chairman of the People’s Power Emergency Response Committee, as “the Democratic Party X-man.” Chairman Kim pointed out, targeting Candidate Ahn, “I am not convinced of the idea that I am suddenly worthy now.” “In a way, it gives the impression of being in a group.”
Candidate Ahn said, “I misunderstood Kim Jong-in’s wife (wife) and Mr. Kim Jong-in’s wife, Seoul National University professor, who argued that it was influencing his political decisions (former Lee Jun-seok, former supreme member of the Future Integration Party). ”Responded. Candidate Ahn said, “Chairman Kim’s wife has the same name (Kim Mi-kyung) as my wife.” “Isn’t it that I misunderstood him because there are so many stories about his influence in Yeouido.”
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