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Posted : 2021-07-04 15:35
Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung / Yonhap
Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung garnered more support than former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl in the latest poll on prospective presidential contenders released Sunday.
In the survey by Global Research, Lee received 44.7 percent of support, while Yoon had 36.7 percent in a hypothetical one-on-one battle. The gap was larger than the poll s margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
It was conducted from last Wednesday to Friday on 1,000 people aged 18 and older and had a 95 percent confidence level.
The two hopefuls have been back and forth in recent one-on-one polls. Yoon had been in front in the early days after stepping down as prosecution chief in March. But in a survey conducted from last Monday to Tuesday, Lee finished ahead of Yoon, 42.2 percent to 39.2 percent.
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Gov. Lee sends letter to U.S. Congress, U.N. to call for support for anti-leafleting law
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Yonhap) Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung has sent a letter to the United Nations and the U.S. Congress to call for support for a law that South Korea enacted to ban the sending of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets into North Korea, officials said Sunday.
Lee, considered a leading presidential hopeful, said in the letter that the leafleting ban is the minimum measure to protect the lives, safety and properties of the people of Gyeonggi Province that includes regions bordering North Korea.