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Former Deputy Prime Minister Kim Dong-yeon and former lawmaker Yoo Seung-min said today (31st) that they would run for the Gyeonggi governor election.
Gyeonggi-do is emerging as the biggest battleground for the June local elections as the ruling and opposition parties declared their candidacy side by side.
Correspondent Lee Han-seok compiled the list of opposition parties in the local elections that have been revealed so far.
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Kim Dong-yeon, president of New Wave, who predicted a merger with the Democratic Party, chose the Gyeonggi governor challenge as his next move after resigning as a presidential candidate.
Gyeonggi-do is a strategic location for the Democratic Party, where candidate Lee Jae-myung, a former governor, outranked Yoon Seok-yeol, president-elect, by 5.32 percentage points in the last presidential election.
Representative Kim, who came to the conference room with Rep. Jeong Seong-ho, who is considered to be the core of Lee Jae-myung-gye, said that he would risk everything for Suseong, Gyeonggi-do.
[Kim Dong-yeon/CEO of New Wave: I will lead the whole local election of the pan-political replacement forces and become a winning candidate.]
Five-term lawmaker Ahn Min-seok also announced his candidacy, and the Democratic Party’s lineup consists of four-way battles including five-term lawmaker Jo Jung-sik and former Suwon Mayor Yeom Tae-young. departed.
In the Power of the People, former lawmaker Yoo Seung-min, who was the presidential runner-up, cast a vote.
He vowed to pour out the political capabilities he had accumulated over the past 23 years for Gyeonggi Province.
[Yoo Seung-min / Former Member of the People's Power: I have emphasized many times that a conservative party must win the hearts of the middle class, the metropolitan area, and the youth in order to win the hearts of the people.]
Shim Jae-cheol and former lawmaker Ham Jin-gyu are in a three-way battle.
Another match-up, Seoul, is also revealing its outlines.
In the Democratic Party, which has suffered from character difficulties, the appearance of former president Song Young-gil as an opponent of mayor Oh Se-hoon, the power of the people, is being strongly discussed.
Although there are many opposing opinions that the theory of responsibility for losing the presidential election is a burden, former CEO Song said he felt a great responsibility and said he would make a decision by tomorrow.
The Daegu election, in which Mayor Kwon Young-jin has announced that he will not run for office, is expected to be a fierce domestic battle among the people.
In the midst of the two-way structure of Rep. Hong Jun-pyo and former Supreme Councilor Kim Jae-won, lawyer Yoo Young-ha of 'Park Geun-hye' is also scheduled to announce his candidacy tomorrow.
(Video coverage: Kim Nam-seong, Video editing: Won-yang)