Cho Jung-hoon, a member of the transition to the era, running for the Seoul Mayor’s by-election is holding a press conference to announce the policy pledge at the communication hall of the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the morning of the 22nd. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
“I will talk in detail about the four days a week that Candidate Jo Jung-hoon argues and my 4.5 days a week” (Park Young-sun, former Minister of Small and Medium Venture Business)
“(To the alliance government of the pan-optics) Candidate Chul-soo Ahn as well as Candidate Jo Jung-hoon should be able to work with him.”
The love call for Cho Jo Jung-hoon, who was running for the by-election of the Mayor of Seoul, is continuing regardless of the opposition party. Rep. Cho had a policy talk with Democratic Party member Woo Sang-ho on the 8th, and on the afternoon of the 22nd, he meets former Minister Park Young-sun. On the 23rd, a meeting is scheduled with Jin Jung-kwon, a former professor at Dongyang University, and on the 27th, I am meeting with former lawmakers. He explained that all meetings will be a place to exchange and receive talks about the policies that Congressman Cho is focusing on, such as four days a week and basic income. Congressman Cho said, “I am not interested in things like camp fights. However, it is always welcome to discuss the policy.”
In fact, when it comes to the possibility of electing, it is not strange even if the attention is lowered. According to various opinion polls, most of them did not include him as an option, and even in the case of including him, his approval rating is still within the 0% range. On the 6th to 9th, when Ipsos, an opinion polling agency, asked for the suitability of the Seoul Mayor for only criminal passport candidates at the request of SBS, Rep. Cho recorded 0.3%, falling behind the Open Democratic Party member Kim Jin-ae.
Nevertheless, the background of Congressman Cho’s increasing share price every day is the situation of candidates who must recruit the middle class in order to gain an edge in the finals. In the last general election, Congressman Cho was elected as a member of the proportional satellite party of the Democratic Party, but since returning to the turn of the times, he has not spared a bitter voice towards the ruling party. At the same time, they rejected the recent unification of the opposition third zone as “not fresh or attractive,” and refused to belong to either camp. Each of the opposition candidates is making the calculation that if a policy is discussed with him, it can give the impression that he is a reasonable candidate who is not bound by political conflict.
Democratic Party lawmaker Sang-ho Woo (right) and Democratic Party lawmaker Jo Jung-hoon, who declared a run for the 4/7 Seoul mayor by-election, are taking a commemorative photo at the 2021 Seoul Mayor Election Policy Discussion held at Mir Media in Mapo-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 8th. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
An official from the camp side of the former Minister Park said, “In the main campaign strategy, expansion to the middle road is an important issue. I said. Representative Woo’s side also explained, “If a single candidate for the opposition party is created and the situation is not easy if a bilateral structure is made, then I met Cho as a stone to unify the (criminal passport) in the future.” Rep. Cho himself also said, “There is no camp behind me, so if you take me, you can look like a reasonable and future-oriented candidate.”
Rep. Cho has not yet responded greatly to the unification with any camp, and is expressing his determination to complete the Seoul Mayor’s election. He said, “I started with the idea of completing the run, and all the assistants in the Assembly’s office are determined to write their resignation,” he said. “It is politics and democracy that wins the hearts of the citizens, but I think we should not give up on this.”
One stumbling block is that in order for him to officially run for the by-election, he has to drop his office by the 8th of next month. When he resigns from the office to run for office, the former vice president of the International Nuclear Fusion Experimental Reactor (ITER), former vice president of the International Nuclear Convergence Experimental Reactor (ITER), who was the 18th proportional order of the Citizen’s Party, took over. Rep. Cho said, “I keep thinking about how to deal with the worries of the party members and how to deal with it.”
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