![Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol is revealing his resignation position at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 4th.[사진제공=연합뉴스]](https://i0.wp.com/file.mk.co.kr/meet/neds/2021/03/image_readtop_2021_241143_16156914134572274.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol is revealing his resignation position at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 4th.[사진제공=연합뉴스]Amid the presidential election on March 9, 2022, former President Yoon Suk-yeol, who recently resigned from the post of prosecutor general, faced a’star moment’. Former President Yoon recently surpassed former Democratic Party representative Lee Jae-myeong and Gyeonggi Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Nak-yeon, and ranked first in the opinion polls for presidential candidate support. It is analyzed that the former President Yoon mobilized the conservative and intermediate conservative camps that were drifting by revealing their presence as the vanguard of the Ban Moon (Ban Moon Jae-in) camp.
△The next presidential election is one after another…
After the resignation of former President Yoon, there are a series of polls that ranked first in the number of votes for the next presidential candidate.
Gallup Korea surveyed 1003 adults over the age of 18 from the 9th to the 11th of the nation’s preference for the next political leader (±3.1% points in the 95% confidence level of the error range), Governor Lee (24%) On the 12th, former president and former president and yoon announced that they were tied for first place. This is the first time that Yun recorded the 20% mark in the Gallup survey, up 15 percentage points from a month ago (9%). In addition, as a result of a survey on the fitness of the next presidential leader (the sample error is ±3.1% points to the 95% confidence level) on the 5th, 1023 people aged 18 years or older nationwide at the request of TBS, the Korea Institute for Social Opinion (KSOI). The president received the highest support at 32.4%. This has more than doubled since January 22nd (14.6%) in the same poll.
In the next presidential election next year, a public opinion poll showed that there is no significant difference in approval ratings, regardless of whether the choice between the power of the people, the first opposition party, and the third zone. On the 11th, an opinion poll company Real Meter announced the results of a survey of 1,000 voters nationwide (the error range was ±3.1% points with 95% confidence level) from the 9th to 10th at the request of OhmyNews. 45.2% of respondents said they would shoot when running as a candidate for the power of the people, and 45.3% said they would shoot when running as a third force.
For more information on each poll, refer to the website of the Central Election Poll Deliberation Committee.
![On the afternoon of the afternoon of the 5th, when President Moon Jae-in approved the plan to dismiss Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, a cherry blossom sent by supporters is hung in front of the home of former President Yoon, Seocho-gu, Seoul. /[사진 출처 = 연합 뉴스]](https://i0.wp.com/file.mk.co.kr/meet/neds/2021/03/image_readmed_2021_241143_16156914134572275.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
On the afternoon of the afternoon of the 5th, when President Moon Jae-in approved the plan to dismiss Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, a cherry blossom sent by supporters is hung in front of the home of former President Yoon, Seocho-gu, Seoul. /[사진 출처 = 연합 뉴스]△4.7’Jeongjung-dong’ until the re-election in Seoul and Busan
For the time being, former President Yoon is known to plan to summarize a comprehensive position on the reform of the prosecution without taking any special outside activities for the time being until the 4.7 Seoul and Busan re-election.
On the 10th, attorney Sohn Kyung-sik, former President Yun’s litigation agent, said on the 10th that “(President Yoon) currently does not expect to have lectures or other external activities during March or April.”
In addition, it is reported that Yun is currently discussing with lawyers how to end the’two months of honesty’ disciplinary action of the Ministry of Justice. Lawyer Sohn said, “Because everything happened suddenly, we need to get things in order first. We will focus on the (disciplinary) case closing problem.”
In the current politics, it is expected that former President Yoon will decide on the heading based on the results of the re-and-by-election in April. In particular, opposition parties such as the People’s Power and the People’s Party are sending love calls to former President Yun.
On the morning of the 11th, Kwon Eun-hee, the National Assembly Representative, admitted that in the 20th general election in 2016 at the CBS’Kim Hyun-jung’s News Show’, the National Assembly Party tried to recruit former President Yoon as a proportional representative. I think it would be nice to look forward to the part we are together.” Candidate Se-Hoon Oh, Mayor of the People’s Power of Seoul, said on the possibility of solidarity with former President Yun at KBS Radio’Oh Tae-hoon’s Current Affairs Headquarters’ on the 12th. “I can confirm up to the point.” On the other hand, Kim Jong-in, chairman of the Emergency Response Committee for the Power of the People, dismissed Yoon’s future political actions on the 10th, saying, “There is no example of success in the third zone.”
In a call with Maekyung.com, Professor Lee Jun-han of the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy said, “It is a very flexible situation whether to go to the third zone (in the future by former President Yoon) or through the power of the people.” It won’t be easy. The third zone is justifiable and the spirit of the times (must be supported),” he said.
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