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Young opposition politician emerges as strong party chief candidate
Posted : 2021-05-12 14:38 By Bahk Eun-ji
Lee Jun-seok, a young politician of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP), is emerging as one of the strongest candidates to take on the leadership of the conservative party which plans to select its new head next month, a poll showed Wednesday.
According to the survey of 1,010 adults nationwide conducted by Hangil Research from Saturday to Tuesday, 15.9 percent of the respondents said former four-term lawmaker Na Kyung-won would be the best fit for the PPP chief position among party members who announced their bids for the position.
Critics say Moon s special address far from public sentiment
Posted : 2021-05-10 17:10
Updated : 2021-05-11 09:54
By Kang Seung-woo
President Moon Jae-in s special address, Monday, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of his inauguration, left critics believing that he still does not recognize the current situation that the public is facing, according to political watchers. I think the President is not on-point regarding what the public are complaining about, Hangil Research director and political analyst Hong Hyeong-sik said. It seems that his aides might be failing to recognize and precisely report to the President the situation as it is.
Hong added, President Moon needs to feel the same urgency that the general public are feeling.
Ruling party distancing itself from President Moon
Posted : 2021-04-01 16:43 By Kang Seung-woo
Amid declining approval ratings for President Moon Jae-in especially following public anger over property speculation scandals involving public officials, the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) and its candidates running in next week s Seoul and Busan mayoral by-elections are keeping the Moon administration at arm s length, with some even criticizing its policy failures including its real estate drive.
Park Young-sun, right, the ruling Democratic Party of Korea s candidate for Seoul s mayoral by-election, poses for a selfie with a voter while campaigning at Hapjeong Station on Seoul Metro lines 2 and 6, Thursday. YonhapThis trend of erasing any vestiges of an unpopular state leader among the ruling side is raising speculation that they would accelerate Moon s descent into a lame-duck presidency after the April 7 by-elections. Moon s term is scheduled to end in May 2022.