Gyeongnam Education Superintendent Candidate Park Jong-hoon, "Kim Sang-kwon Is Not a Unified Centrist-Conservative Candidate" ... Injunction Filed to Prohibit False Information Disclosure

Candidate Park Jong-hoon for Gyeongnam Superintendent of Education.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] On the 12th, Park Jonghun, candidate for Superintendent of Education in Gyeongnam, filed a provisional injunction request to stop the use of the expression "moderate-conservative unified candidate."

Candidate Park Jonghun submitted a provisional injunction to the court to prohibit the publication of false information, claiming that the expression "moderate-conservative unified candidate" promoted by candidate Kim Sangkwon’s side is false information.

Park said, “Candidate Kim Sangkwon cannot be seen as the only candidate representing moderate-leaning supporters,” and added, “The use of expressions that provide distorted information to voters must be stopped.”

He added, “It is absurd to use the term ‘moderate-conservative unified candidate’ just because some organizations gathered and went through a candidate unification process,” and “Without the overwhelming support of the moderate group so far, Park Jonghun would not have been able to become a re-elected superintendent of education.”

He argued that although there is an intersection of moderate-leaning voters between the two candidates running for the Gyeongnam Superintendent of Education election, unilaterally claiming to be the "moderate-conservative unified candidate" is the spread of false information.

Candidate Park Jonghun said, “My long-standing belief is that there is no separate progressive or conservative in education,” and “I hope candidate Kim will move away from the outdated ideas of being progressive, conservative, or moderate and come forward to a productive policy contest for future education.”

The Busan City Election Commission issued a voter interpretation on the 9th stating that candidates who claim to be moderate or conservative, or all candidates with moderate or conservative tendencies, cannot use the expression “moderate-conservative unified candidate” if they did not participate in the unification process but unified nonetheless.

Due to the Election Commission’s decision, the preliminary candidate for Superintendent of Education Ha Yunsu’s side cannot use the expression “moderate-conservative unified candidate,” and even if they add endorsing organizations, they cannot use the expression.

A Gyeongnam Election Commission official stated that they were reviewing the related matter separately from the Busan Election Commission, but due to candidate Park Jonghun’s provisional injunction request, they will follow the court’s decision.

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