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| ▲ People’s Power Kim Jong-in, chairman of the Emergency Response Committee, and in-hospital representative Joo Ho-young, are wearing masks at the Emergency Response Committee meeting held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the morning of the 2nd. | |
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“You cannot win the mayoral election if you are unified as a candidate for the third zone.”
The conflict between the people’s power and the People’s Party continues over the unification of the conservative and opposition candidates for the Seoul Metropolitan Mayor’s by-election. While Kim Jong-in, chairman of the People’s Power Emergency Countermeasures Committee, emphasized’symbol number 2’and insisted on the unification of the people’s power centered one after another, the People’s Party side is responding that it is not so modest. Ahn Cheol-soo, who has been unified with former Democratic Party lawmaker Geum Tae-seop, is waiting for a candidate for the contest within the power of the people to be selected (related article: Ahn Cheol-soo and Geum Tae-seop defeated the third zone opposition candidate).
Kim Jong-in, chairman of the emergency countermeasure committee, was asked about the question at the meeting of reporters after the party’s emergency countermeasure committee meeting held at the National Assembly on the morning of the 2nd. Can you be sure that you will win the election with the party’s number 4?” It has been reiterated that the single candidate of the Pan-Conservative and opposition parties should go to the election with’No.
Kim Jong-in “Ahn Chul-soo, I think I’m mistaken… The approval rating itself can’t be a standard.”
He replied about the possibility of meeting with CEO Ahn Chul-soo, “If (Candidate Ahn) comes to meet, I will have to meet.” Regarding the possibility of a trilateralism due to the unification of the opposition, he did not try to break the unification version itself, saying, “I don’t think that unification of the opposition can’t be done.” However, he raised his voice, “My basic idea is that we can’t win the election if we have a person who is the third candidate and we do unification.”
Chairman Kim Jong-in was also skeptical that CEO Ahn Chul-soo had a higher approval rate than other candidates for the mayor of Seoul in public opinion polls. He said, “The current approval ratings aren’t really the approval ratings to be honest,” he said. “For example, when Candidate Ahn Chul-soo conducts a poll with our party candidate, people in the Democratic Party are sending considerable support to Ahn Chul-soo.” Insisted.
“That’s why the approval rating itself cannot be the standard,” he added, adding that “Candidate Chul-soo Ahn seems to be mistaken, but if we calmly analyze the constituent factors of the poll, we have to judge it that way.” Chairman Kim said, “If you ask whether you will support a candidate for the people’s strength in deciding a single candidate or a candidate for the People’s Party, how will the general citizens judge this?” The by-election is to place checks or judgments on this regime,” he stressed.
He said, “Because it encompasses’the ruling party or the opposition party’, the power of our people has no choice but to take the political center in the Seoul Mayor’s by-election.” I can’t bring it. He argued that the power of the people, the’first opposition party’, monopolized the symbolism of the Moon Jae-in regime’s judgment.
Chairman Kim avoided a concrete answer to the unification method that day, saying, “We can choose a method other than the polls,” and “I will talk about the matter after our candidate is confirmed.” Regarding his move, he said, “I will make judgments on my own with respect to the Seoul mayoral by-election,” he said. “I don’t try to see the state of an election that I can’t achieve politically and properly for no reason.”
In the power of the people, there is also a talk of ‘worthy party after unification of candidates’. MBC Radio on this day <김종배의 시선집중>Congressman Seong Il-jong, who appeared in the film, said, “Is it good to go out as a candidate for our party through a poll, or whether it is good to go to the National Party where Candidate Ahn Chul-soo is?” “Considering the practical issues, Ahn will decide without much difficulty,” he predicted.
He said, “After unification, it goes to the procedure of integration, so it seems that there is no big problem because the first button is inserted,” he said. “(CEO Ahn) becomes such a vessel.”
The People’s Party “Does not consider the participation or worthy of the people’s power?”
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| ▲ Candidate Ahn Chul-soo, mayor of the National Assembly Party, speaks after silence on the statue of Son Ki-jeong with 18-year-old voter youth at Son Ki-jeong Sports Park in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 1st. Candidate Ahn won the 3rd zone contest against former lawmaker Tae-seop Geum. | |
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Chairman Kim Jong-in has consistently made similar remarks with this position since the beginning of unification, and the National Assembly criticizes such comments as not helping the opposition parties win the election. Lee Tae-gyu, a member of the National Assembly, who appeared on the MBC radio that day, said, “(Such remarks) will make the people frown,” he said. “Because it halves the effect of unification, we have to be careful with each other.”
Regarding Chairman Kim Jong-in’s emphasis on’symbol number 2′, Congressman Lee said, “Citizens now demand a person, but if they insist on a party confrontation, the opposition will lose 100 matches and 100 losses.” Can the power beat the Democratic Party?” “Popular opinion that the government should go to a confrontation between passports vs. opposition parties, or judge Moon Jae-in regime, should bring together voters with such thoughts, but if you stick to No. 2, the scalability decreases.”
Regarding CEO Ahn Chul-soo’s participation in the power of the people or the worthy of the people’s power and the people’s power, he cut off, saying, “We are not examining it at all.