Cheon Ha-ram: "Kim Ki-hyun Will Pay Dearly... Party Members to Vote for Judgment"

Candidate Cheon Ha-ram of the 'Lee Jun-seok faction' interpreted the historically high voter turnout in this party convention's mobile voting as a result of the party members' anger.

On the 6th, on BBS's 'Jeon Young-shin's Morning Journal,' Candidate Cheon said, "It increased by about 10% within an hour. Those who actively voted as soon as they could while waiting basically have anger as their driving force."

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He said, "For those who think our party is doing very well and take a more relaxed view, their active participation might be somewhat lower. However, those who feel anger and a sense of crisis, thinking 'Our party is in big trouble, the Yoon core group is doing bad things, circulating petitions, and ruining the party,' are more actively voting."

This is what is called a 'judgment vote.' He added, "Until now, the party only sang songs about party members but never properly asked for their opinions. There is definitely a judgment vote aspect."

During the weekend, the People Power Party's party convention mobile voting recorded a turnout of 47.51%, the highest ever. Including the ARS voting on the 6th and 7th, the final turnout is expected to easily exceed 50%.

Candidate Cheon said, "If it surpasses 50% like this, the Kim Ki-hyun camp might think, 'Since the National Assembly district committee chairpersons support him, the party members in those districts will come out in large numbers.' The Kim camp is underestimating our party members too much. If they blindly trust organizational votes like that, I think Kim will be in big trouble at the March 8 party convention and will be very surprised."

He suggested that he could advance to the runoff vote. He said, "Only if I advance to the runoff will there be a real drama where Cheon Ha-ram defeats candidate Ahn Cheol-soo with the wind of reform and clarity of reform," adding, "I believe I will win the runoff by about 55 to 45."

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