Gwangju City Conducts Online and Offline Citizen Voting for 'Gwangju Citizen Assembly'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 20th that it will conduct a citizen vote both online and offline to determine the three main candidate agendas to be submitted to the ‘2020 Gwangju Citizens' Assembly’.

Until the 14th, Gwangju received 71 proposals for the Gwangju community through the online democracy platform ‘BaroSotong Gwangju’ from citizens.

Then, on the 18th, the Citizens' Rights Committee held a plenary meeting and selected the ‘Top 10 Preliminary Agendas for the Gwangju Community Practice Agenda’.

The selected agendas were chosen considering those that embody the spirit of Gwangju, can be practiced through solidarity and cooperation by all citizens, and address crises or problems faced by the Gwangju community, gaining significant public sympathy.

The top 10 preliminary agendas will be narrowed down to three main candidate agendas through this online and offline citizen vote, and at the ‘2020 Gwangju Citizens' Assembly’ scheduled for the 12th of next month, they will be deliberated, discussed, and voted on by citizens to be finalized as the ‘Final Agenda for the Gwangju Community Practice’.

The citizen vote will be conducted concurrently online and offline, and any citizen can participate.

Online voting can be accessed through ‘BaroSotong Gwangju’, and offline voting will be held on-site at 20 administrative welfare centers in Gwangju’s districts.

Citizens participating in the vote will select three agendas they consider to be ‘Gwangju-style practice agendas’ from the 10 preliminary agendas. On-site offline voters can review the details of each agenda via tablet devices.

Choi Young-tae, Chairperson of the City Citizens' Rights Committee, said, “We thank the citizens who made many proposals to create a better Gwangju,” and added, “We ask for active participation once again in the vote for the three main candidate agendas so that practical agendas essential to citizens’ daily lives for our Gwangju can be selected.”

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