■ Broadcast: CBS Radio FM 98.1 (07:20~09:00)
■ Progress: Kim Hyun-jung, anchor
■ Conversation: Kwon Eun-hee (People’s Party floor leader)
The first Monday of 2022 has begun. Yesterday and the day before, that is, on the 1st and 2nd, quite a lot of opinion polls were poured out all at once. Although the figures are slightly different, a constant flow is captured. One is the upward trend of candidate Lee Jae-myung, and the other is the downward trend of candidate Yoon Seok-yeol. And another is the obvious rise of candidate Ahn Cheol-soo. Now we’re going to show you a survey on YouTube and Rainbow. A survey conducted by the Segye Ilbo commissioned by Research & Research. This is the content published on the 31st of December 27, 28 and 29 after conducting a poll of 1,013 people for three days. Lee Jae-myung 35.5%, Yoon Seok-yeol 30.9%, Ahn Cheol-su 10.3%, Shim Sang-jeong 4.1%. Usually 10% is called the Evil Wall, but a poll came out that broke through the Evil Wall. What is the reason for Ahn Cheol-soo’s sudden rise? And how will it affect the presidential election landscape in the next 60 days? Kwon Eun-hee, floor leader of the People’s Party, from now on. Kwon Eun-hee, floor leader, hello.
◆ Eunhee Kwon> Yes, how are you?
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Happy New Year.
◆ Eunhee Kwon> Yes, Happy New Year.
Reporter Yoon Chang-won◇ Kim Hyun-jung> I think the atmosphere at the camp has been very encouraging since the beginning of the year.
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Yes.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> How do you understand the cause of the uptrend? at camp.
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> As everyone can see without a separate analysis at the camp, I believe that the people are restoring common sense through the power of the people, the mess created by the Democratic Party and the power of the people.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Is the power of the people restoring the mess created by Yanggang?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> With the power of the people.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Ah, the people, the People’s Party with the power of the people. Yes. However, rather than the self-scoring of candidate Ahn Cheol-soo, there are many analyzes that candidates who want a regime change but say they can’t shoot Lee Jae-myung are gathering as candidate Ahn Cheol-soo as candidate Yoon Seok-yeol’s conceding points have recently continued. some kind of reflex?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Candidate Cheol-soo Ahn scored 26.74% during the 2016 People’s Party era in Gina. And in the 2017 presidential election, he got 21.4% of the votes. Rather than saying that Yoon Seok-yeol’s support group is moving, it seems to be an accurate assessment that the existing support group of Ahn Cheol-soo is gathering again. There is also this new middle class, people in their 20s. These 20s are, in fact, a very serious generation to evaluate something like this, which is preconceived and sensitive. This is the generation of value consumers. It is believed that these 20s began to consume Ahn Cheol-soo’s politics by seeing Ahn’s morality and Ahn’s policy abilities as they quickly and diversely access this political content such as YouTube.
◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> You said that it was Ahn Cheol-soo’s recovery rather than Yoon Seok-yeol’s loss. So, do you think the Golden Cross of the opposition will eventually come to pass?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Yes. Of course I think it will happen.
◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> Golden Cross in which Candidate Ahn Cheol-soo beats Yoon Seok-yeol within the opposition?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Yes.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Then, when do you think that will happen? 65 days left now.
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Take it easy now and before you stand. Bilateral confrontation before New Year’s Eve. I believe that Ahn Cheol-soo and another candidate will be able to form a bilateral confrontation.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Are you saying that if it is before the Lunar New Year, it will be done in January?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Yes.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> We are looking forward to the Golden Cross in January, when Ahn Cheol-soo surpasses Yoon Seok-yeol.
yunhap news◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Yes.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> As candidate Ahn’s approval rating jumps, love calls are coming out from both parties. Come join us.
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> That’s right.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> What do you think?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> First, Song Young-gil, president of the Democratic Party of Korea, is actively speaking through the media. In a nutshell, in the Ahn Cheol-soo marketing election, it is evaluated that it is nothing more than Ahn Cheol-soo’s marketing by the Democratic Party of Korea.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Wait a minute. Why is the Democratic Party marketing Ahn Cheol-soo? What does that mean? Do you need Ahn Cheol-soo to sell Lee Jae-myung? That’s what marketing is all about. What does that mean?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Candidate Jae-myung Lee is now trapped in the box of approval ratings that receive a golden cross rather than a golden cross due to suspicions of morality and corruption. It is difficult to escape from the box of approval ratings with the Democratic Party itself. So, I think it’s just a strategy to use Ahn’s middle class for marketing. These Democrats are actually well known in the People’s Party. We joined the New Politics Alliance for Democracy. At that time, I was told that factional hegemony should be changed and reformed, but this was not accepted, so I left the party. And I am well aware of the parts of a political force that does not cooperate at all through the appearance of whether the 20th and 21st National Assembly is going to enforce the fast track or whether the three real estate lease laws are unilaterally handled. Moreover, between the People’s Party and the Democratic Party of Korea, there were years of conspiracy to distort political opinion polls called Kim Kyung-soo and Drooking.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> So, Cheol-soo Ahn was the biggest victim at the time of the fraudulent manipulation. That’s what the People’s Party continues to say, isn’t it?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Yes, that’s right.
◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> In the end, I even went through a drawing process. In other words, a large river that cannot be crossed exists between the two parties, and between the two candidates. What do you mean?
◆ Eunhee Kwon> It’s really urgent to talk like this in a situation where it seems like it exists but doesn’t exist. Makes me think like this.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> ‘Ahn Cheol-soo is marketing.’ Candidate Jae-myung Lee is trying to do marketing through Candidate Cheol-soo Ahn, because it is difficult to expand the middle class on his own. that word. Then tomorrow. It is now known that Candidate Jae-myung Lee will throw an agenda called the Unified Government Theory at the New Year’s press conference tomorrow. So, let’s unite all candidates who have a common denominator in the direction of national administration. So, the premise is that who is the prime minister, who is the deputy prime minister, and of course, the president is Lee Jae-myung as the Democratic Party, but it seems that he will make such a proposal.
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Well, under a presidential system, talking about the unified government ahead of the election by the candidates itself is not sincere. In a situation where there is no change in the political power of the Democratic Party of Korea, I think it will be such a statement that is not worth listening to.
National Assembly Photo Foundation◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> On the other hand, if the support rate of the people’s power and the support rate declines further, there is no choice but to talk about unification. If you look at the recent trend, Kim Jong-in, general election chairman. In the past, the possibility of unification with Candidate Ahn Cheol-soo had been dismissed, but the tone has changed a bit recently. You said with the intention of ‘it could be of some help’. What do you think? Unification with the power of the people.
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Likewise, Chairman Kim Jong-in and the People’s Party are not aware of this. Chairman Kim Jong-in There are years when we were together in the process of unifying the opposition in the last Seoul mayor by-election. During those years, the way that Kim Jong-in’s elections were held and he was engaged in politics was the part that thought only of winning skills as engineers and election engineers. In the end, winning the election is the part where you win against the people, but when it comes to approaching this only with technology, it’s not like you’re a senior in politics. Likewise, I don’t want to make a meaningful assessment of this remark by the technician.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> A meaningful evaluation, that is, do you see it as just a technical statement to the extent that there is no need for evaluation?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Yes.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> No, by the way. So, then the probability of unification is zero? with either side?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> In the politics of Ahn Cheol-soo, there has never been a single case in the head of political engineering. Including this election. The unification with the then-candidate Moon Jae-in in 2012 or the unification in the Seoul mayor by-election last year in 2020 is the part where the supporters and the public have accepted the demands for unification with their hearts and responded to the people. As we passed the 2020 Seoul mayoral by-election, in the 2022 presidential election, we were able to predict what the people would demand to compete until the end for a better regime change, because we see it as a demand of those people now. Of course, I will participate in the election in such a way that I accept the demands of the people and compete until the end.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> You are saying that unification was not chosen strategically in the past elections, but because of the public demand. There is a chance this time as well. In other words, if you look at the polls now, the demand for regime change continues to be higher than the demand for regime re-creation. more than half. If two candidates, Yun Seok-yeol and Ahn Cheol-soo, share half of the votes, they will eventually lose support for re-creating the government. In other words, it is a loss for Candidate Jae-myung Lee. So, at the end of the day, do you think that there will be no choice but to suffer from unification pressure?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> That is the existing political grammar. So, in the political realm, the 20s generation is a generation with a very strong ego. There is no meaning in this political grammar, whether it is the existing political literature, the anti-resignation psychology, or the psychology through unification. Self-selection and its effectiveness and its content in self-selection. It is the generation that considers this part as the most important and consumes those parts. These generations are also the ones that are cohesive and influence the overall constituency. As such generation’s consumption of Ahn Cheol-soo’s politics began, it is expected that it will affect the overall electoral structure.
◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> That’s not to say that Yoon Seok-yeol and Ahn Cheol-soo take half and half, but that Candidate Ahn Cheol-soo just overwhelms him.
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Unification and strategic unification by the voters through strategic choices through the last Seoul mayor by-election, which is, of course, overwhelming, and even members and supporters of the People’s Power. Those of you who have experienced this part. Therefore, Ahn Cheol-soo’s competition rather than the demand for unification in light of the supporters’ experiences of the party members or supporters of national power. Ahn Cheol-soo’s confrontation, I think this part will be more encouraging.
◇ Kim Hyeon-jung> No, but with weak party organization right now, to be honest, the People’s Party is much weaker than the people’s power, so do you think you can really overwhelm Candidate Yoon?
◆ Kwon Eun-hee> Of course, it is overwhelming. The 2022 presidential election is meaningful in many ways, although new political voters and political voters with new characteristics also appeared. Even in the political environment, politics is rapidly spreading in various ways through YouTube content and social media communication. As a result, the general public has truly become the largest organization. And as the 2022 presidential election coincides, local elections are held together. A general election will be held in 2024. For this reason, I believe that the People’s Party can secure sufficient organizational power by maximizing the power of the general public and by making a remarkable appearance in local elections and general elections.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Until here. I will listen to you today. Thank you.
◆ Eunhee Kwon> Yes, thank you.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> It was Kwon Eun-hee, floor leader of the People’s Party.
