Ahn Cheol-soo after being killed… Na Gyeong-won’An and Citizen Competition’

As Ahn Chul-soo, the representative of the National Assembly Party, ranks first among the candidates for the mayor of Seoul, the tug-of-war with the power of the people over the method of unifying candidates is expected to become even more intense. The power of the people is claiming to be a’pan-option platform’ for the re-election of the Mayors of Seoul and Busan on the 4th and 7th, but the possibility of Ahn’s participation in the election is low, so they are struggling to decide how to decide the method of the contest.

The power of the people, the first opposition party, is deeply puzzled when it appears that candidates belonging to the party are being pushed by Ahn before the re-election of the mayor of Seoul in April in various opinion polls conducted at the beginning of the year. Considering the urgency to check the regime, it is essential to unify the candidates with President Ahn and others, but the fact that there are still no influential candidates in the party is a burden.

Accordingly, the People’s Power Nomination Management Committee, which will discuss the rules of the contest in earnest at the regular meeting on the 5th, is deeply concerned. From inside and outside the party, the’participation theory’ that President Ahn must join and compete with the party’s candidates, the’negotiation theory’ to go through unification negotiations later when a candidate for the power of the people is determined, and the main contest for the power of the people without participation by 100% opinion polls. There are’one-shot contests’.

Candidates for the mayor of Seoul are also expressing various opinions. Former lawmaker Na Gyeong-won appeared on a broadcast that day and said, “It is good for Ahn to come to the party from our (the power of the people) standpoint, but will President Ahn come in?” I think not.” Seocho-gu mayor Cho Eun-hee on Facebook said, “I propose a ‘100% Citizen Pan-optics Consolidation Competition’ whether CEO Ahn joins the party or the party candidates go out and compete in Big Tent.”

On the other hand, in passports with fewer candidates than opposition parties, the theory of selection of former Deputy Prime Minister Kim Dong-yeon is discussed. As the first deputy prime minister of the Moon Jae-in administration and minister of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, he has been encouraged to enter the political world several times from both sides.

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