By-elections, Busan Geumjeong 34% and Jeonnam Yeonggwang 60%... "Local worker" vs "regime judge"

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[Anchor]
Voter turnout exceeded 50% in Yeonggwang and Gokseong, Jeollanam-do, amid the main vote for four heads of local governments and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education.

The election is like an "intermediate test" for the leaders of the ruling and opposition parties, and it is expected to be a watershed moment for who will take the lead in the political situation in the future.

The tension between the ruling and opposition parties is fierce, and I'm connecting the National Assembly reporters. Reporter PARK JEONG HYUN 1

The main vote has begun, so how is the political atmosphere?

[Reporter]
Yes, although this by-elections are a "mini-election" to select four heads of districts and counties, analysts say that the situation has grown enough for the leaders of the ruling and opposition parties to wage an all-out war.

This is because the results of the by-elections are considered a gauge of public sentiment after the general election,

The place where the fiercest battle takes place is Busan Geumjeong, which selects a successor to the head of the district.

Representative Han Dong-hoon worked hard to visit Busan six times, but today, the day of the election, he attended a ceremony to commemorate the Buma Uprising in Busan and prepared a schedule.

Due to the recent sluggish approval rating of the ruling camp and the unification of the opposition party, it has become difficult to relax even in the political situation where conservative taxes are strong,

The leadership of the ruling party has repeatedly emphasized at a morning meeting that it is an election to select local workers and has begun to encourage voting.

[Choo Kyung-ho / People's Power Floor Leader: This by-election is an election to select local workers to work from tomorrow. Please vote for the number 2 workers.]

However, I can also read that it is a close but dominant situation internally,
An official from the
leadership said, "If we succeed in winning gold politics in the face of headwinds within the ruling camp, it deserves to be said that we did well."

The Democratic Party of Korea has expressed some expectations for the victory, but in fact, it also shows a tendency to see it as a measure of public sentiment rather than victory or defeat.

The Democratic Party has floated the 'regime judgment theory' in this election,
An official from the
party said in a call that the financial settlement is very difficult, and even if it loses, it will be possible to check the degree of reflection of the regime's judgment theory depending on the gap in approval ratings.

[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party leader: It totally depends on who does it. When the world is ruined, no matter how hard I try, it's hard to live well no matter how good I am.

Yeonggwang, Jeollanam-do, where the opposition three-way race will take place, is also a major destination.

Initially, the Democratic Party and the Innovation Party were in a fierce battle, but it is difficult to guarantee the outcome as the Progressive Party made strides in the last-minute poll.
An official from the
Democratic Party of Korea said in a call, "The flow and structure have been caught to some extent due to the last-minute gathering of supporters," and analyzed the situation positively.

Cho Kuk, the leader of the Innovation Party, appealed for support in an SNS post, saying, "The Innovation Party is proud to have raised the election to the national scale of the judgment of the regime," and the Progressive Party also campaigned in Yeonggwang until late last night.

[Anchor]
Please also tell us the status of voter turnout by region.

[Reporter]
Yes, as of 1 p.m., the turnout in Geumjeong-gu, Busan is 34.4%.

47.7% of Ganghwa-gun, Incheon, selects county heads,

Glory in Jeollanam-do recorded 60.6% and Gokseong 56%.

The by-election of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education is relatively low, with 14.88%.

This figure reflects early voting and residential voting by mail.

Pre-voting rates for four heads of local governments and one superintendent of education, which were held for two days from the 11th to the 12th, were 8.98%.

[Anchor]
The political influence surrounding the revelation of Myung Tae-kyun continues, right?

[Reporter]
Yes, the passport is embarrassed.In a media interview,

has still had many conversations with Mrs. Kim and even announced that they would continue to disclose them, so tension is increasing.

At the party level, he refrains from making official comments, but a key party official said in the phone call that the president's office's explanation is also unclear.

People's Power first launched a party audit on allegations that Myung conducted a poll using the party membership list during the presidential election.

The party is also considering filing a complaint against Myung, but Daegu Mayor Hong Joon Pyo posted on social media and urged the government to come up with measures such as abolishing the ARS investigation and banning the publication of investigations with less than 15% response rate.We are also paying keen attention to the impact of the disclosure of

on this election, and subtle nerves between the close and the pro-Yoon system are also read.

In a radio interview, Supreme Council member Kim Jong-hyuk said, "Even if the results of the by-elections are not good, can we blame Han for doing his best?" and that the presidential office, which aggravated public opinion, should feel responsible.
On the other hand, former Supreme Council member Jang Ye-chan criticized Han for using Kim to hide his incompetence, saying, "It has been revealed that Myung has benefited from his relationship with the President and his wife."

The opposition party pointed out that the truth of Kim's alleged manipulation of state affairs is being revealed by the revelation of Myung Tae-kyun, and that the president's office's explanation is rather fueling suspicions.


We are tightening the offensive level because we need to find out the truth through the First Lady Kim's Special Counsel Act,
The
Democratic Party plans to begin the process of promoting a permanent special prosecution in earnest.

The National Assembly Steering Committee held a plenary session and began the process by referring the relevant rule amendments to the subcommittee.

At the same time, there was a war of nerves between the ruling and opposition parties over the adoption of witnesses for the parliamentary audit, which will be held two weeks later.

The opposition party tried to force the list that included Kim and Myung, excluding the adoption of witnesses demanded by the ruling party,

In the end, the meeting ended with the opposition party voting alone with the ruling party members leaving.

I'm Park Jung-hyun of YTN in the National Assembly.



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