On the first day of the new year, National Assembly representative Ahn Chul-soo is answering questions from reporters after completing a worship service at the National Cemetery in Dongjak-gu, Seoul. News 1
The 1st opposition party’s worries are deepening as Ahn Chul-soo, the head of the National Assembly Party, showed strength in the New Year’s Seoul Mayor’s poll. This is because the leadership plan to lead the victory as an independent candidate is inevitably disrupted. At the moment, the opinion that the Party should actively open opportunities to Representative Ahn and voices to check unification came out at the same time.
In a survey conducted by the Mayor of Seoul on the 27th to 29th of last month by Research & Research, a polling agency commissioned by the Dong-A Ilbo on the 1st, CEO Ahn ranked first among 13 candidates with a 24.2% approval rating. Occupied. Minister of SMEs Park Young-sun (17.5%) and former lawmaker Na Gyeong-won (14.5%) ranked second and third in turn.
The results of other polls are similar. On the 31st of last month, the results of a poll conducted by Jowon C&I and Sisa Journal on the 26th to 27th on 1,003 voters in the Seoul area (95% confidence level plus ±3.1% point of sample error), Ahn, a single candidate for opposition In the case of confrontation with candidate Park, it was found to lead within the margin of error. More details can be found on the website of the Central Election Polls Review Committee.
Accordingly, Congressman Je-won Jang insisted that he should reach out to Representative Ahn. Rep. Jang said on Facebook that day, “If you look at the New Year’s polls in each media, you will consistently put CEO Ahn Chul-soo at the top of the Mayor of Seoul. And wrote. He also said, “Who is going to do a good job if you scratch and bring down the No. 1 candidate in the opposition?” “If we blow away the golden opportunity to restore Seoul City Hall through the self-righteousness of the party in charge of the party, our party will commit an indelible sin in history It is to build,” he strongly criticized.
On the other hand, there are not a few public opinions that are wary of President Ahn’s early’popular theory’. Ji-wook Ji, director of the Yeouido Research Institute, a think tank for the power of the people, dismissed Ahn’s claim of a single candidate for the opposition as “political ignorance.” In an interview at MBC Radio on the day, Ji said, “The talk of political unification is not good for the people and not good for policy.” After that, people get confused.”
In the midst of this, Ahn, who visited the urban regeneration area in Changsin-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul for the first time in the new year, stressed that “the opposition parties must join forces.” He said, “The most important thing is for the opposition to win the election,” he said. “In order to do that, the people’s power supporters, the people’s party supporters, and the progressive inclinations for rational reform must all join forces to hold the election.” He added, “How can we gather together so that we can support a single opposition candidate, and find a way to do so,” he added. “From that point of view, I believe other people will be the same.”
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