With three days left until the registration date for candidates for the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education by-election on the 16th of next month (the 26th and 27th), the unification of conservative candidates has effectively fallen through.
On the 23rd, conservative candidates Yang-ok Ahn, former president of the Korean Federation of Teachers’ Associations (KFTA), and Professor Hu-jo Hong of Korea University held an emergency press conference in front of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and announced that they could not accept the results of the unification investigation conducted by the ‘Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Superintendent Center-Right Candidate Unification Integration Countermeasures Committee’ (Unification Committee), a conservative unification organization.
Former Chairman Ahn and Professor Hong, who participated in the survey on the unification of the Unification Committee along with former Grand National Party lawmaker Cho Jeon-hyeok, claimed that “the survey should have been conducted by taking into account distribution by gender, age group, and region, but instead, it was conducted indiscriminately,” and that “the survey for the selection of a single moderate conservative candidate is fundamentally invalid.” They also claimed that some of the questions in the survey were written in favor of former lawmaker Cho.
The Unification Advisory Council conducted a telephone interview poll on the 21st asking who would be the most suitable centrist candidate, and was scheduled to announce the candidate with the highest number of votes as the single candidate on the morning of the 25th.
Chairman Ahn and Professor Hong demanded that former Assemblyman Cho resign or participate in the process of unifying the ‘Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Conservative Candidate Unification Selection Committee (Selection Committee)’ in which they and Professor Kim Young-bae of Sungkyul University participate. However, former Assemblyman Cho said in a phone call with the Dong-A Ilbo, “I cannot accept the demands of the two candidates.” Among the conservative candidates, Seoul Arts High School Principal Yoon Ho-sang has already declared his independent candidacy, so the possibility of at least three conservative candidates has increased.
In the progressive camp, the ‘2024 Seoul Democratic Progressive Education Superintendent Promotion Committee (Promotion Committee)’ is scheduled to announce a unified candidate on the 25th, but four candidates, including former Senior Secretary to the President for Public Relations Cho Ki-sook, have already announced that they will not participate in the unification led by the Promotion Committee.
Reporter Yeo Geun-ho [email protected]
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2024-09-23 21:00:59