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| In addition, Park Young-seon (right) and Woo Sang-ho, preliminary candidates for the Democratic Party’s Seoul Mayor’s by-election./News1 © News1 National Company Advancement Foundation |
In addition, the competition between the candidates Sang-ho Woo and Young-seon Park is heating up with the Democratic Party’s Seoul Mayor’s primary election.
Some pointed out that it is’too flat’ because there are relatively few fights between the candidates compared to the opposition, but it is expected that a full-fledged confrontation will begin with the preemptive strike of the right candidate. As the successor to the legitimacy of the Democratic Party, the clarity and reality of the promises such as real estate, urban development, and youth issues have emerged as issues.
The two preliminary candidates will have TV debates three times until the 17th and 25th starting with MBC’s ‘100-minute discussion’ on the afternoon of the 15th. Radio debates are also held on the 22nd (BBS) and 24th (CBS).
Preliminary candidate Park is expected to focus on explaining his representative pledge,’Seoul City Transformation-21 Minutes City of Seoul.’ In addition, it plans to explain how to implement key pledges, such as’Supply of 300,000 units of public pre-sale housing within 5 years of Seoul’ and the implementation of the 4.5-day weekly system of subsidiaries in Seoul.
Confronting this, the preliminary candidate Woo announced the verification of the awl. He appeared on the CBS radio’Kim Hyun-jung’s News Show’ this morning and criticized Park’s pledge of ’21 Minute City’, saying, “Isn’t it a pledge that seems to be idle or not like the Democratic Party”.
In addition, regarding the pledge of ‘4.5 days a week’ of preliminary candidate Park, “The person who said,’I reflect on the vote for the 52 hours a week bill in the days of the Minister of SMEs, made a pledge of 4.5 days a week in one year.” He pointed out, “I will address the issue of policy consistency in terms of policy verification.”
Preliminary candidate Woo’s lead is interpreted as aiming to overturn by raising the number of wins through a full-fledged policy verification against Park preliminary candidate Park, who has the upper hand in public opinion polls.
Previously, the two preliminary candidates showed their closeness by frequently using the title of’Sister/Sister’ in this race. Some criticize this as being flat.
On the 13th, Mayor Kim Jin-ae of the Open Democratic Party said, “In the’warmful confrontation’ between Park Young-seon and Woo Sang-ho, the ruling party’s emergency lights were lit.” I am concerned about going up,” he said.
However, as TV debates are held one after another, it is expected that the criticism of the individual candidates will continue along with the verification of the commitment in earnest.
In the TV debate, along with the policy verification, the’democraticness’ mentioned by the preliminary candidate Woo, the legitimacy beyond that, and the identity issues are expected to rise on the cutting board. The Democratic Party’s primary election will be ‘50% party members + 50% citizens’. In recent public opinion polls, candidate Park Young-seon generally leads the way, but there is no way to predict that public opinion within the party will be the same.
Park’s preliminary candidate has a history of serving as the mentor leader of Candidate Hee-jung Ahn during the 2017 presidential election, so there are doubts that it is a’inscription (inscription Moon Jae-in)’ from some of the party.
In order to dispel this, Park’s preliminary candidate continued to maintain his identity as a ‘promotional family member (pro-Moon Jae-in)’, posting an article on his Facebook page saying that he has served President Moon Jae-in as a member of the State Council since 2012. Emphasis.
Through a TV debate, Park’s preliminary candidate said, “This election is an election for the people’s livelihood market that certainly takes care of the people of Seoul,” and plans to reveal his determination to be chosen by the citizens of Seoul through his achievements and policy vision.
On the other hand, the preliminary candidate Woo is planning to show that he is a candidate who made a pledge for the common people with a progressive policy.
He said on the radio that day, “I am a generation of democratization movement and have a progressive orientation,” and “I hope our Democratic Party will compete with a progressive policy for the more socially underprivileged in Seoul.”
Then, through his Facebook page, he said, “A TV debate will be held to determine who is the most Democratic candidate and who is the most necessary candidate in Seoul,” he said. “Please watch over and ask for your judgment.”