10 conservative opposition champions, including’Ahn Cheol-soo-Na Kyung-won-Oh Se-hoon’, are declared
Democratic Party expects to reverse the atmosphere with’Sang-ho Woo-Young-sun Park’
material photo” alt=”At the time in 2018, candidates Sang-ho Woo, Young-sun Park, and Won-soon Park took off at the Democratic Party’s Seoul Mayor candidate contest. At the time in 2018, candidates Sang-ho Woo, Young-sun Park, and Won-soon Park took off at the Democratic Party’s Seoul Mayor candidate contest. <한겨레> Material photo
Unlike the people’s power of’busy’ with only 10 candidates who have declared their run ahead of the Seoul Mayor’s by-election in April, the Democratic Party has not yet heated up the election atmosphere such as the party primary. There is a concern within the Democratic Party that the attention of the election should not be taken away when the power of the people in the future drives momentum by promoting the unification of conservative opposition through the party primary. In the power of the people, Oh Se-hoon, former Mayor of Seoul, officially declared a run for mayor on the 17th, and joined the party’s candidate for mayor of Seoul. Previously, former lawmakers Na Gyeong-won, former lawmakers Kim Sun-dong, Lee Hye-hun, Lee Jong-gu, and Oh Shin-hwan, Cho Eun-hee, former head of Seocho-gu, Park Chun-hee, former head of Songpa-gu, Kim Geun-sik, a professor at Kyungnam University, and former Shanghai Consul General Kim Jeong-ki, declared a run for the by-election of Seoul. The succession of the declaration of running in the power of the people is also related to the change in party approval ratings. In a political party approval survey released on December 3, last year by Real Meter, a public opinion poll, the power of the people (31.2%) surpassed the Democratic Party (28.9%) within the margin of error. It was the result of slightly flipping the approval rating in 4 months at the time. For the next five weeks, the power of the people is ahead of the Democrats in the Real Meter survey. It can be said that the growing awareness of “a good election” within the power of the people was a crowded declaration of running. In addition, in the conservative opposition, Ahn Chul-soo, the representative of the National Assembly Party, officially runs for the election for the former mayor of Seoul for over a month, making policy announcements and continuing on-site actions. Unlike many of the conservative opposition,’Ahn Cheol-soo, Na Kyung-won, and Oh Se-hoon’, the Democratic Party’s lawmaker Woo Sang-ho, who declared his run early on the 13th of last month, brought the election atmosphere alone. Although Rep. Woo is struggling with announcing real estate policy, etc., his attention is somewhat lower than the opposition, which is growing the contest. Small and medium-sized venture minister Park Young-sun, who is a member of the Democratic Party, is concentrating on carrying out the ministerial affairs, saying he will decide to run within this month. In addition, when Rep. Park Ju-min, who was weighing the run, had no clear word about running, a member of the party leadership expressed frustration, saying, “Reporters call Rep. Park and tell him to run for a little bit.” Rep. Park is known to have taken the lead in non-running, taking into account the prevalence of the party race. There is also a sense of crisis that the Democratic Party should not give the initiative of the election atmosphere to the opposition in the process leading to the primary and final elections. In the case of the power of the people, former lawmakers Na Gyeong-won and former mayor Oh Se-hoon have an opportunity to raise the attention of the elections, such as attempting to unify the conservative opposition with Ahn Chul-soo, the representative of the National Assembly after the primary. In the Democratic Party, there are many observations that Minister Park Young-seon, who is highly recognized by the public, will conclude his decision to run and make an official declaration sooner or later. In the Democratic Party, the atmosphere is expected to raise the atmosphere of the election even more if Minister Park declares his run and forms the “Sang-ho Woo-Park Young-sun” contest. The Democratic Party will start accepting candidates at the end of this month and shift to the election phase as soon as possible. An official from the Democratic Party’s Seoul Mayoral Election Planning Team said, “Because we can lose if we are vigilant about the organization or this, we have to do our best. By Seo Young-ji, staff reporter