Nationalist Party candidate Ahn Chul-soo (from left) and Na Gyeong-won are preliminary candidates for the People’s Strength, meeting citizens during the Lunar New Year holiday on the 10th. yunhap news
In the 4·7 Seoul Mayor’s by-election, the opposition party’s’Seoul City Alliance Government’ initiative is gaining momentum. In December of last year, the people of the people’s strength responded after two months after Ahn Chul-soo, the head of the National Assembly, proposed a coalition government.
Oh Se-hoon, former Mayor of Seoul, said in a media interview on the 13th, “If the city of Seoul is united in the form of co-operation of (opposition), it will be expected from the perspective of the voters. The route is not different,” he said. He also said, “Aren’t there any coalition government experiments abroad?”
Former Congressman Na Kyung-won also posted on Facebook on the same day, “Not only Candidate Ahn, but also Candidate Tae-seop Geum, and Candidate Jo Jung-hoon, more broadly (the transition to the times), should be able to work together. Basic task”. He added, “The’liberal common sense coalition’ (which encompasses all of them) should become a platform for political innovation.”
CEO Ahn Cheol-soo also met with reporters on the next day, the 14th, “I told you that from the beginning, I would widely hire talented people from the pan-optics”. “(Mayor Oh and I, former lawmakers) said that they have a will and sincerity for unification. I will accept it.”
Representative Ahn unveiled his plan for the’Seoul City Alliance Government’ on December 21, last year, the day after the declaration. At that time, he said, “The next Seoul city executive department should become a’pan-opposition alliance local government’,” but the people’s power did not give any reaction. Unlike President Ahn, who wants to consolidate the party to the party, the power of the people is because he did not want to give the leadership of unifying opposition to Ahn outside the party.
However, before the Lunar New Year holidays, the method of unifying the opposition was effectively organized in a’two-track’ method. It is a method of selecting a single candidate for opposition at the beginning of March after each of the 3rd zone contests, such as the People’s Power internal contest and Representative Ahn + former lawmaker Geum Tae-seop, respectively.
Therefore, it is analyzed that the idea of the coalition government is gaining strength even for non-public activities that are inevitable in the process of unification. An official from the power of the people said, “When CEO Ahn first mentioned the coalition government last year, it was difficult to get a willing response from the power of the people because there were many words that it was a goal for the’party vs. party primary’. The candidates have no choice but to think after the unification.”
◇ Na Gyeong-won and Geum Tae-seop walk on Dulle-gil, Ahn Cheol-soo and Geum Tae-seop creak= Former lawmakers Na Gyeong-won and Geum Tae-seop walked together on Namsan Dulle-gil on the afternoon of the 14th to sympathize with the unification of the opposition candidate. At this meeting, talks about the necessity of the anti-moon solidarity not only for the unification of the opposition candidates against the Moon Jae-in administration but also for the’making a new edition’ after the election. I, former lawmaker, said, “We have to go beyond winning the election to create a new politics board.” “We should not simply stop at anti-moon solidarity. “We have to satisfy the hope for new politics and the people’s desire for political change.” He said, “It will be a’liberal common sense coalition’ to change an uncommon South Korea into a common sense South Korea,” he said. “All forces that agree with it must create a new political platform.”
Former Congressman Geum Tae-seop said, “Not only the election, but also discussions about how to gather power after the election,” he said. “I hope this election will trigger a new edition and fundamentally change politics.” The two also talked about communicating with each other on’Clubhouse’, a new audio-based social media.
Ahn Cheol-soo, head of the National Assembly Party, and former lawmaker Geum Tae-seop, an independent lawmaker, are meeting at the National Assembly Hall in Yeouido, Seoul on the afternoon of the 4th to negotiate a way to unify the’third zone’. yunhap news
On the other hand, the discussion on unification of the third zone between CEO Ahn Chul-soo and former lawmaker Tae-seop Geum was creaky. Representative Geum Jeon issued a statement on the same day that the TV debate scheduled for the 15th with Ahn, the Nationalist Party representative, was broken. It is a pattern in which the nerve wars of both sides surrounding the debate method are heated.
Rep. Geum said on Facebook, “It became difficult to proceed with the first TV debate with Candidate Ahn as announced. The scheduled debate date is tomorrow (15th), but the working-level discussion has not yet finished,” he wrote. “If only fierce battles between candidates are guaranteed, I will actively accept the opinions of Candidate Ahn on the form of debate and other matters,” he said.
The People’s Party also commented, “I think it is necessary to overcome the difference by promptly resuming working-level discussions between the two sides. Candidate Geum’s working-level negotiation team withdraws his refusal to negotiate working-level negotiations and asks him to negotiate.”
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