With "Recapturing Gangseo District Mayor"... Ahn Cheol-soo and Five-Term Chungcheong Leaders Lead All-Out Effort

An appointed as permanent advisor of the previous campaign committee
Jung Woo-taek and Jung Jin-seok as co-chairs of the campaign committee
Poll shows opposition candidate Jin Gyo-hoon leading

The People Power Party has launched an all-out effort to reclaim the Seoul Gangseo District Office. With the Gangseo District Office by-election scheduled for the 11th of next month fast approaching, the party is focusing its efforts on supporting Kim Tae-woo, the People Power Party candidate. Following the National Assembly's approval of the arrest motion against Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party, the party appears to be organizing a mammoth-level campaign committee to provide extensive support, targeting the internal strife within the Democratic Party.

On the afternoon of the 25th, Kim Ki-hyun, leader of the People Power Party, will visit Bangsin Traditional Market in Gangseo-gu, Seoul. Lee Cheol-gyu, Secretary-General, and Park Dae-chul, Chairman of the Policy Committee, will accompany him to appeal for support for candidate Kim.

Previously, the People Power Party formed an unprecedented campaign committee. Assemblyman Ahn Cheol-soo (Bundang Gap, Gyeonggi) was appointed as the standing advisor to the campaign committee, while National Assembly Vice Speaker Chung Woo-taek and Assemblyman Jung Jin-seok were appointed as honorary co-chairs of the campaign committee.

Assemblyman Ahn, who has emphasized the 'capital region crisis theory,' currently represents Bundang Gap in Seongnam, part of the capital region, and has experience winning in Nowon-gu, a stronghold of the opposition party. He is expected to play a role in gauging public sentiment in the capital region through this election. Additionally, Vice Speaker Chung and Assemblyman Jung, who have constituencies in the Chungcheong region, are expected to target voters from the Chungcheong region residing in Gangseo-gu.

Along with them, former Assemblymen Kim Sung-tae and Koo Sang-chan, who have previously won elections in Gangseo-gu, as well as Kim Jin-sun, chairman of the Gangseo-byeong party committee who competed against candidate Kim in the party primary, and former Seoul Assemblyman Kim Yong-sung, will serve as co-chairs of the campaign committee.

Kim Ki-hyun, leader of the People Power Party, Yoon Jae-ok, floor leader, and Kim Tae-woo, candidate for the by-election for Gangseo District Mayor, are holding placards at the on-site Supreme Council meeting at Gomdallae Cultural Welfare Center in Gangseo-gu, Seoul on the 21st. Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

So far, the race shows candidate Kim somewhat trailing. According to a poll conducted by Realmeter on behalf of News Spirit from the 18th to 19th among 803 Gangseo-gu voters aged 18 and over, released on the 22nd (for detailed information, refer to the Central Election Poll Deliberation Commission website), Democratic Party candidate Jin Gyo-hoon leads with 44.6%, while People Power Party candidate Kim Tae-woo has 37.0%, trailing outside the margin of error (±3.5 percentage points).

The People Power Party's strategy is to overturn the race by providing full support to their candidate, capitalizing on the Democratic Party's inability to focus on this by-election due to factional conflicts reaching a peak following the approval of the arrest motion against their leader.

In fact, Lee Jae-myung and Park Kwang-on, the floor leader who announced his resignation, were absent from candidate Jin's campaign office opening ceremony the day before. Instead, top party officials and opposition figures such as former leader Choo Mi-ae were present.

This election is regarded as a barometer of public sentiment in the capital region ahead of next year's general parliamentary elections. For this reason, the political world is on high alert. On the same day, Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo stated on his SNS, "The camp that loses the Gangseo District Office by-election will face a megaton-level shock," adding, "This is not a simple by-election but an important battle to preview the weather map of next year's capital region general elections."

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