Yoon Seok-yeol Confirmed as People Power Party Presidential Candidate... Wins with 47.85% (Comprehensive)

[Asia Economy Reporter Naju-seok] The People Power Party on the 5th selected former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol as its presidential candidate for next year.

People Power Party presidential primary candidates Yoon Seok-yeol and Hong Joon-pyo are greeting party members and applauding side by side at the 2nd party convention to select the 20th presidential candidate, held on the 5th at the Baekbeom Kim Koo Memorial Hall in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. Photo by National Assembly Press Photographers Group

The People Power Party confirmed former Prosecutor General Yoon as the presidential candidate through a combination of party member voting (50%) and public opinion polls (50%) conducted from the 1st to the 4th.

Yoon received 47.85% of the combined votes from the public opinion polls and party member voting. Although Yoon trailed Representative Hong in the public opinion polls, he led in the party member voting, securing his position as the presidential candidate. Yoon garnered 37.94% in the public opinion polls and 57.77% in the party member voting.

Representative Hong Joon-pyo of the People Power Party came in second with 41.5%. Hong led in the public opinion polls with 48.2% but was defeated in the party member voting with 34.8%.

Former Representative Yoo Seung-min secured 7.47% (10.67% in public opinion polls, 4.27% in party member voting), and former Jeju Province Governor Won Hee-ryong obtained 3.17% (3.19% in public opinion polls, 3.16% in party member voting).

In this primary, out of a total of 569,059 party members, 363,569 voted, and public opinion polls were conducted on 6,000 adult men and women by four polling organizations.

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