Yoon Seok-yeol (left), presidential candidate for People’s Strength, and Ahn Cheol-soo, presidential candidate of the People’s Party, are moving following greeting at the ‘2022 Presidential Candidate Invitation Debate’ jointly hosted by six full-length broadcasts hosted by the Korea Journalists Association held at the Maekyung Media Center in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 11th. . News 1
Even if we consider the positions of prime minister or minister, it does not help much to Ahn’s political status. The status of a political leader is important because it is important to secure his own power in elections.
Lee Jun-seok, representative of People’s Power
People’s Power Representative Lee Jun-seok expressed his view that it would be more reasonable to secure the political future of Ahn Cheol-soo, the presidential candidate of the People’s Party, in relation to the debate on unification of the opposition. In the meantime, he has turned from a position of negating unification by spreading the ‘self-reliance theory’ that Yoon Seok-yeol, the People’s Power presidential candidate, can win alone.
The idea is to ensure that the power of the people will secure Ahn’s future political role, rather than just handing out a few public office positions when Yoon comes to power. In this regard, even within the People’s Power, there is a little talk that Ahn should be given a justification to step down through the so-called ‘next presidential election roadmap’ and should start negotiations for unification. In the case of the unification method through an opinion poll proposed by Candidate Ahn, the people’s power and Candidate Yoon made an early statement that they might not accept it, and the situation has virtually crossed the line.
In an interview with MBC Radio’s ‘Kim Jong-bae’s Concentration’ on the 16th, CEO Lee drew a line saying that a simple ‘seat sharing ceremony’ unification negotiation would not be attractive from the standpoint of candidate Ahn.
“The reason why candidate Ahn, who has to continue politics, seeks unification is probably the process of finding a political cause, not a matter of winning and supreme,” he said. Please understand it as a dimensional message.” He continued, “Since Candidate Ahn has been in politics for a long time, I think there may be a scenario of his own regarding how to secure the same forces as him.”
Lee Jun-seok, who stood in the opinion poll, “Unification, find power and cause, not position”
On the followingnoon of the 13th, two days before the official campaign for the 20th presidential election, a bus to be used for the election campaign for the presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-su of the People’s Party is parked in the garage of a car advertisement company in Songdo, Incheon. On the same day, Candidate Ahn officially proposed the unification of opposition candidates to presidential candidate Yoon Seok-yeol. Incheon = Yonhap News
The idea of unification with the ‘power not a seat’ came out through the mouth of Kim Jae-won, the representative speaker of the people’s power.
On the same day, on TBS radio’s ‘Kim Eo-jun’s News Factory,’ Kim said, “As far as I know, the candidate I know is not a person who wants to make such trivial calculations, such as the distribution of government ministers or the responsible prime minister,” he said. ) I think we can succeed if we approach with a willingness to give everything except the president,” he said, starting negotiations on unification negotiations.
“Looking at the past,[Ahn]failed to form the New Politics Alliance for Democracy,” he said.
In light of the words of Chairman Lee and Supreme Commissioner Kim, what the people’s power can realistically bestow on Candidate Ahn is the people’s power and the party power. When the MBC radio host asked if they might also review a scenario in which Ahn would assume the power of the People and the party power of the People’s Party, CEO Lee said, “I don’t know if negotiations are possible, but I don’t think it’s at the stage of negotiations (for now). He said, “If the integration process is carried out, we might hold a national integration convention, but I don’t think it’s realistic at this point.”
Yoon Seok-yeol-Shincheonji Allegations Criticized, “Is it magic to carry around throughout the election?”
People’s Power Presidential Candidate Yoon Seok-yeol, along with Representative Lee Jun-seok, is appealing for support at the Seomyeon Youth Street in Busan on the followingnoon of the 15th. Busan = Yonhap News
On the other hand, Chairman Lee criticized the Democratic Party’s repeated suspicions of a coalition between Candidate Yoon and Shincheonji, saying, “It is a witchcraft and a minority religion that the ruling party in the Republic of Korea carries throughout the election. It is a rare thing in election history.”
Regarding the suspicion of Shincheonji members’ group membership, the representatives of Rep. Hong Jun-pyo, a former presidential runner-up, said, “I looked at the party membership statistics, and if there was usually a group membership, regional variations or such were revealed, but there was no such thing.”
Regarding the controversial use of the word ‘otoke’ in his presidential campaign promise book, he bowed his head, saying, “We will be more careful in the future.” However, “Actually, there are memes (images or videos that are popular on the Internet) on the Internet, so we picked up the term during the process of analyzing public opinion reactions and did not use it for planning or academic purposes. He also said, “The nickname ‘Gaejunsugi’ comes up.” It is an explanation that he did not intentionally use misogynistic expressions.
Kang Yoon-ju reporter kkang@hankookilbo.com