Democratic Party Campaign Committee: "Current Race Lee-Yoon 'Extremely Close'... Focusing on Swing Voters"

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[Asia Economy Reporters Ki-min Lee, Young-won Kim] The Democratic Party's election campaign committee announced on the 2nd that it views the current race as a "neck-and-neck" contest and plans to focus on targeting undecided voters over the next seven days.

Kang Hoon-sik, head of the campaign committee's strategic planning division, stated at a press briefing at the Yeouido party headquarters that "Recent survey trends show an ultra-close race within the margin of error," adding, "In hypothetical two-way matchups and among likely voters, most reports show a gap within approximately ±1%."

He continued, "I believe the contest has shifted to a battle over who can get more people to the polls," and analyzed that "predicting and analyzing poll results has become meaningless."

Kang emphasized that support for candidate Lee has been rising over the past two weeks among women, the 2030 generation in the Seoul metropolitan area, and centrist voters, saying, "Among centrists, Lee's rate of increase is slightly higher than candidate Yoon's, so with a bit more effort, it is possible to reverse the support rates."

Regarding undecided voters, he defined them as "people who make cool-headed judgments," noting that their proportion has decreased from 15% to 6% over the past three weeks. He predicted, "The remaining 6% will be the battleground between camps and candidates." He also stated, "While candidate Yoon does not talk about the future of the Republic of Korea and only uses negative words, candidate Lee continues to talk about the future and hope, so I believe the centrist voters will cast their precious vote for the future and hope."

Kang particularly expressed expectations that issues related to the national unity reform plan recently announced by candidate Lee and the Democratic Party will be reflected in voting. Regarding Lee's competitors, Sim Sang-jung of the Justice Party and Ahn Cheol-soo of the People’s Party, he said, "I expect them to respond to public proposals."

On candidate Lee's campaign plans for the remaining week, he explained, "So far, the campaign has been somewhat focused, but going forward, the number of campaign events will increase more rapidly, and during that period, he will tour the entire country one last time," adding that the final campaign event will likely be in Seoul.

When asked whether Lee's wife, Kim Hye-kyung, would accompany him for early voting, he replied, "I don't think so."

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