This is news of the Seoul Mayor’s by-election. Two opposition candidates Oh Se-hoon and Ahn Cheol-soo have finished the TV debate, but are still having difficulty negotiating a unified poll. The two passport candidates Park Young-sun and Kim Jin-ae will announce the results of the unification today (17th).
This is reporter Lee Hyun-young.
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In the debate on unifying the opposition candidates, candidate Ahn Chul-soo of the Nationalist Party discussed the issue of being compensated for the designation of Naegok-dong of the family of candidate Oh Se-hoon, the power of the people, as a residential district.
[안철수/국민의당 서울시장 후보 : 땅 문제에 대해서는 많은 국민께서 분노하고 계시지 않습니까. 그래서 해명이 없다면 야권 선거에 큰 타격이 있을 것 같아서….]
Candidate Oh struck Bae Ji-jin, saying that there was no preferential treatment and even resigned.
[오세훈/국민의힘 서울시장 후보 : 부당한 압력을 가했던 것을 경험한 서울시 직원이나 SH 공사 직원은 바로 양심선언 해주십시오. 그러면 저는 바로 후보 사퇴하겠습니다.]
There were also rumors about Candidate Ahn’s declaration that he would promote the people’s strength and worthiness after the election.
Candidate Oh pressed Ahn to “join now instead of the worthy party,” and Ahn was beaten by saying, “I’m talking about a plan for unifying the three-stage pan-optics after the election.”
The two candidates are planning to conduct a unified poll for two days from today, but they have not even decided on the poll text.
As a result, we had a two-hour last-minute negotiations last night, but we couldn’t reach an agreement, and we decided to resume negotiations at 8:30 this morning.
Democratic Party candidate Park Young-seon and Open Democratic Party candidate Kim Jin-ae finish a two-day poll yesterday and today.
The results of the unification of the two candidates will be announced at 6 pm this evening.