Gyeonggi Education Innovation Alliance Dismisses Eunhye Yoo’s Objection, Maintains Minseok Ahn as Unified Candidate

Official Procedure with Participation from Gyeonggi Residents

"Unified Candidate Already Confirmed... No Grounds for Reversal

System Issues Were Previously Recognized and Agreed Upon

No Objective Evidence to Prove Manipulation of Election Results"

The Gyeonggi Education Innovation Alliance has dismissed the objection raised by candidate Eunhye Yoo regarding the unified primary, and has officially reaffirmed Minseok Ahn’s status as the sole unified candidate representing the democratic and progressive bloc. As a result, the controversy surrounding the unification process for the Gyeonggi Provincial Superintendent of Education election among the progressive camp is now expected to be settled.

Candidate An Min-seok, who was elected on the 22nd by combining the results of the public opinion poll and the electoral college vote. Photo provided by Candidate An Min-seok

The Election Management Committee of the Gyeonggi Education Innovation Alliance held a meeting on April 24 and announced, "We did not find any significant procedural flaws that would warrant canceling or suspending the effectiveness of the unified candidate decision," thus deciding not to accept candidate Yoo’s objection.

The committee cited "procedural legitimacy" as the key basis for its decision. It explained that the unified primary was an official procedure participated in by tens of thousands of Gyeonggi residents, and that there were no clear legal or administrative grounds to overturn the confirmation and announcement of Minseok Ahn as the unified candidate on April 22.

In particular, the committee emphasized that postponing or reversing the result without clear justification would not only undermine the original intent of unification but could also seriously damage the bloc’s competitiveness in the general election.

The committee also thoroughly refuted the claims made by Eunhye Yoo’s camp regarding the alleged vulnerabilities and suspicions of irregularities in the online voting system.

The committee made it clear that both sides had already recognized and agreed upon the characteristics of the system before the primary. It explained that the issues stemmed from the general structure of electronic voting systems, and that the agreed-upon supplementary measures were properly implemented during the primary.

Regarding the text message logs and independent test results submitted by Yoo’s camp, the committee determined that these merely pointed out certain technical shortcomings of the system, and did not constitute concrete or objective evidence that any party had deliberately manipulated the election results.

With this dismissal, Minseok Ahn—who was elected on April 22 by combining the results of the public opinion survey and the electoral college vote—will officially proceed as the unified candidate of the democratic and progressive bloc.

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