Lee Jae-myung Dominates Seoul and Gyeonggi Primaries... First Place in All Regional Party Member Votes
[Asia Economy Reporter Koo Chae-eun] Lee Jae-myung, a candidate for the Democratic Party leadership, said on the 27th that he feels "increasingly burdened" after winning overwhelming victories in the Seoul and Gyeonggi regional primaries.
After finishing a joint speech meeting in Seoul that afternoon, Lee told reporters, "I sincerely thank you for the unwavering high support. I will do my best until the very last moment."
Candidate Park Yong-jin said, "In baseball terms, it's the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs. I will do my best until the end so that I can hit a grand slam and leave." He emphasized, "I have appealed to the national delegates in various ways about the party's identity and future ahead of tomorrow's vote, so I expect the national delegate comrades to respond."
He added, "Rather than uniting to oppose someone, I tried to form a new force and generation in the Democratic Party centered on new values, but it is regrettable that it did not happen. I do not consider the efforts for generational change to be over just because it did not succeed this time."
Candidate Lee secured first place with a cumulative vote share of 78.22% in the party members' voting results. He received 75.61% of the votes in Seoul and 80.21% in Gyeonggi, maintaining his lead. In the overseas Korean party members' vote, his vote share was 80.28%. On the other hand, candidate Park Yong-jin garnered only 21.78% of the cumulative votes. Park received 24.39% and 19.79% in Seoul and Gyeonggi, respectively, and 19.72% in the overseas Korean vote.
Candidate Jeong Cheong-rae, who is running for the party's Supreme Council member, is presenting his policy speech at the preliminary primary election for the Democratic Party's party leader and Supreme Council members held at the National Assembly Members' Office Building on the 28th. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@
In the cumulative vote share for the Supreme Council members among party members, candidate Jeong Cheong-rae took the lead with 27.65%. Candidate Ko Min-jung followed with 22.02%. The 3rd to 5th places were Park Chan-dae, Jang Kyung-tae, and Seo Young-kyo, respectively.
Meanwhile, in this party convention, the Democratic Party will elect one party leader and five Supreme Council members by combining 30% national delegates, 40% party members, 5% general party members' opinion polls, and 25% public opinion polls. The party convention will be held on the 28th at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Songpa-gu, Seoul, where delegate voting will take place. The results of the second public opinion poll and the general party members' opinion poll will also be announced.
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