Democratic Party Designates 8 Strategic Areas Including Uiwang and Gwacheon in Gyeonggi... Geum Tae-seop's District 'Additional Recruitment'

Assemblyman Sin Chang-hyun, First Incumbent of the Democratic Party to Lose Nomination

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Min-young] The Democratic Party's Nomination Management Committee decided on the 15th to additionally designate eight areas, including Uiwang-Gwacheon in Gyeonggi Province and Gimpo-gap in Gyeonggi Province, as strategic nomination districts for the April 15 general election.

According to this decision, Shin Chang-hyun, the incumbent lawmaker of Uiwang-Gwacheon, became the first Democratic Party lawmaker to be excluded from the nomination.

The Democratic Party also decided to hold an additional candidate recruitment for Gangseo-gap in Seoul, where former lawmaker Jeong Bong-ju, who was disqualified as a preliminary candidate, had applied for nomination. This district is where lawmaker Geum Tae-seop is competing with other preliminary candidates for the nomination. There is interest in whether the additional recruitment decision will affect the nomination screening for lawmaker Geum.

After the Nomination Committee meeting on the same day, the Democratic Party announced through a written briefing that it had decided on eight strategic districts, three additional candidate recruitment districts, nine primary election districts, and 23 single-nomination candidates.

Among the strategic districts designated, the districts with incumbent lawmakers are ▲Uiwang-Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province ▲Gimpo-gap, Gyeonggi Province, totaling two districts.

▲Dongjak-eul, Seoul ▲Namyangju-byeong, Gyeonggi Province ▲Pyeongtaek-eul, Gyeonggi Province ▲Daedeok-gu, Daejeon ▲Buk-gu-Gangseo-gu, Busan ▲Yangsan-gap, Gyeongnam Province, totaling six districts, have no incumbent Democratic Party lawmakers.

Gimpo-gap was designated as a strategic district after lawmaker Kim Du-gwan changed his candidacy area to Yangsan in Gyeongnam Province at the request of the party leadership.

The Democratic Party also gave single nominations to 23 districts including ▲Icheon-si, Gyeonggi Province (Kim Yong-jin) ▲Chungju-si, Chungbuk Province (Kim Kyung-wook) ▲Ulju-gun, Ulsan (Kim Young-moon). All preliminary candidates confirmed for nomination on this day are non-incumbents.

The Democratic Party confirmed nine districts, including Namyangju-gap in Gyeonggi Province, as candidate primary election districts.

Additionally, it decided to conduct additional recruitment in three districts: Gangseo-gap in Seoul, Cheonan-gap in Chungnam Province, and Jeungpyeong-Jincheon-Eumseong in Chungbuk Province. Gangseo-gap is represented by incumbent lawmaker Geum Tae-seop, and Cheonan-gap by incumbent lawmaker Lee Kyu-hee.

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