2024-07-24 19:38:20
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Won Hee-ryong stopped at 18.8% and the organization chart was not strong
Despite low voter turnout, Korea wins election without runoff
“The overwhelming support of party members for Representative Han Dong-hoon is an expression of their desire for a healthy party-government relationship and their disappointment in the pro-Yoon (pro-Yoon Seok-yeol) faction that has shown old-fashioned politics.”
A People Power Party official said this on the 23rd regarding the voting rates of the People Power Party’s party representative candidates at the party convention. At the convention that day, new representative Han Dong-hoon won a landslide victory with 62.84% of the votes. Representative Han also recorded a 62.69% vote rate in the party member electoral college vote. As the party’s focus on representative Han became clear, some analysis indicated that the People Power Party was transformed into the “Han Dong-hoon Party.”
There is an interpretation that “party members who are disappointed in President Yoon Seok-yeol and the pro-Yoon faction sent a warning letter” regarding the fact that the runoff election was not held with a larger-than-expected majority vote. The pro-Yoon faction fully supported candidate Won Hee-ryong as a “rival to Han Dong-hoon,” but unlike the March party convention that elected pro-Yoon representative Kim Ki-hyun last year, the influence of “Yoonsim” (President Yoon’s intentions) or the organizational chart was minimal, and the “Han Dong-hoon traitor theory” following the controversy over Representative Han’s request for the cancellation of the fast-track indictment is also not believed to have shaken the party’s grassroots sentiment.
Representative Han recorded 62.84% of the votes that day, beating candidate Won Hee-ryong (18.85%) who came in second by a large margin. Candidate Won launched an offensive targeting Representative Han with the controversy over ignoring Mrs. Kim Gun-hee’s text messages, suspicions of private recommendations for proportional representation candidates, and suspicions of the operation of a comment team, but both party and public sentiment were focused on Representative Han. Candidate Na Kyung-won recorded 14.58% of the votes, placing her in third place, while candidate Yoon Sang-hyun came in fourth with 3.73% of the votes.
In particular, the party leader is elected by reflecting 80% of the party member electoral college votes and 20% of the general public opinion poll, and Representative Han won both the party and the public by receiving 62.69% of the votes from the electoral college and 63.46% of the public opinion polls. Candidate Won received 20.19% of the votes from the electoral college, and Candidate Na received 13.72%. The Yeongnam region, the traditional support base of the People Power Party, accounts for 40% of the votes in the electoral college, and it is interpreted that their support also went to Representative Han.
The final voter turnout for this convention was 48.51%, down 6.59% from the 55.10% at the March 8 convention last year. As the voter turnout dropped, some interpreted that “Han’s bubble burst and the pro-Yoon faction’s organizational chart could have an effect.” Regarding this, a senior member of the People Power Party said, “Candidate Won and pro-Yoon figures carried out excessive negative campaigns against Han, which led to a drop in voter turnout due to disappointment,” and “Due to such disappointment, pro-Yoon party members turned their backs and did not participate in the vote, and the organizational chart did not work.”
Representative Han’s vote rate in this convention is higher than that of former representative Kim Ki-hyun (52.93%) at the March 8 convention last year or former representative Lee Jun-seok (43.8%) who caused a sensation at the June 2021 convention. A lawmaker from the pro-Han (pro-Han Dong-hoon) faction said, “The party has been thirsty for a rival to fight against Democratic Party of Korea’s candidate for party leader Lee Jae-myung,” and “Representative Han is the right person to attack this candidate’s legal risks.”
Reporter Lee Sang-heon [email protected]
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