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While Na Kyung-won, deputy chairman of the Low Birth Commission, who is considered a runner to people’s power, does not reveal any particular position at the public rebuttal of the president’s office, an analysis emerges that the party’s presidential race is also at a critical crossroads.
Competing runners are struggling to keep their spirits in check while keeping each other in check with their busy moves.
This is reporter Hwang Yun-tae’s report.
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Party permanent advisers have voiced bitter voices towards Na Gyeong-won, vice chairman of the Low Fertility and Aging Society Committee, who is weighing up the challenge of people’s power.
Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo and former lawmaker Lee Jae-oh, whether bureaucrats or party representatives, focused on just one, and in fact discouraged them from running.
[이재오 / 국민의힘 상임고문 (그제, CBS 라디오 인터뷰) : 다리는 공직에 걸쳐 놓고 노는 건 매일 당 행사하는데 모임 가서 마이크나 잡고 그러면 임명권자(대통령)를 욕보이는 거예요.]
It appears to have resulted from the unprecedented public refutation of the presidential office policy initiative by Vice President Na, a senior civil servant.
However, in a recent opinion poll among supporters of the ruling party, whether or not Vice President Na, who is ahead of the other candidates by a significant margin, will run as a representative of the party is considered a variable that will determine the situation.
Previously, he’d suggested he run saying he was hardening his mind through a televised interview, but remained silent over the weekend without an official schedule.
Representative Jang Je-won and Representative Kim Ki-hyeon, who emerged as pro-Yoon runners through the so-called “Kim-Chang solidarity”, met with the passport elders.
It is a level to hear various advice before the full-fledged party convention.
Representative Cheol-soo Ahn, who has put the ‘metro area representative theory’ at the fore, met with party members in the Seoul area and asked for support.
With the words “Kimchi takes a break in March,” he criticized the “solidarity between Kim and Jang” and brought the pro-Yun runners’ unification movement to a halt.
[안철수 / 국민의힘 의원 (어제) : 가능한 많은 후보가 나와서 경쟁하는 게 바람직하다는 생각에는 변함이 없습니다. ‘윤심 팔이’가 아니고 ‘윤힘’ 보태주는 후보, 저는 그런 후보 되려고 합니다.]
Rep. Yoon Sang-hyun, an Incheon constituency, also stressed an “underground solidarity” against Seoul’s party members.
[윤상현 / 국민의힘 의원(어제) : ‘김·장연대’라는 것은 한마디로 PK 연대고, 텃밭연대다…. ‘수도권 연대’라는 것은 아직 그런 이야기는 일부에서 나오고 있는데 수도권 절박해요. 처절해요.]
While party leaders are urging their footsteps, the method of calculating the ruling party’s rivals is expected to become complicated depending on how well-known Vice President Na Gyeong-won decides whether to run.
This is Hwang Yun-tae from YTN.
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