April 14, 2025
Seoul – South Korea's major political parties are quickly preparing for the presidential primary to nominate candidates in early May, with candidate registration starting Monday.
The conservative People's Power Party (linked to the party's former president Yoon Suk Yeol, will register candidates on Monday and Tuesday. They will then narrow it down to four from April 22 to April 22, with the party's presidential primary on May 3.
South Korea's Liberal Democratic Party will also begin accepting candidate registration on Monday, hoping to receive the final presidential nomination in early May.
Those who are competing for the ruling party nominations may include former Labor Minister Kim Moon-soo and former Daigu Mayor Hong Joon-Pyo – the Constitutional Court upheld Yoon's impeachment faction in the Constitutional Court, as well as the Imperial Era in the Northern Gonsang province, and the Governor of North Gonsang Province Lee Cheol-woo, Lee Cheol-Woo, Incheon Mayor Yoo Yoo woon won Yoo Jeong-woon and pops. Sang-hyun.
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However, it can be seen in the conservative group whether Acting President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will express his intention to run for president and participate in the party’s nomination process.
Han received new demands from within the Conservative Party to run for president after Saturday's decision by Seoul Mayor Oh Se-Hoon, considered a popular central figure.
The People's Powers Congressman said in a Facebook post that Han should not ignore expectations for him to become the next state leader.
Democratic Rep. Kim Sung-Hoi said in a statement Sunday that Han should avoid obsession with power and remain politically neutral as an acting president.
Another president hopeful and former MP Yoo Seong announced on Sunday that he would choose to withdraw from the presidential primary with the People's Power Party, which gave him the option to run for president as an independent candidate or another party.
Yoo exploded the Conservative Party in a Facebook article because even after being improperly improper in less than a decade, the Conservative Party was blown up even after the party's second president was improper.
Among those who are conservative hopes, no clear leader has seen two-term Democratic Congressman Lee Jae-Myung far ahead of other candidates in his popularity among the free group.
In this context, the Democratic Party’s expected changes in nominee selection rules are to generate resistance from the inside, as Lee’s competitors in the party believe that these changes are intended to support Lee.
On Saturday, Democrats announced that they would not be in the open primary election to nominate candidates for the party. Instead, the change in the rule would have 50% of the main weight of the voters registered in Democratic Party, while the other 50% would reflect the results of a poll, regardless of party affiliation.
The Liberals claim that the change is inevitable to prevent people affiliated with the Conservative Party from participating in the party’s main nominations or affecting its outcomes.
This will be a major shift as the party has adopted the public theme of presidential nomination since 2017, meaning no voters have become members of the party.
Gongjiji governor and liberal president Kim Dong-young, who has hope, is disappointed by the party's announcement that the primary election will no longer be opened on Saturday, saying it marks Lee's “distrust of the people.”
Meanwhile, former Democratic chairman Lee, who resigned shortly after Yoon was removed from office, will visit Furiosa AI's headquarters on Monday, which developed artificial intelligence inference chips in Seoul on Monday. Li has not weighed the main rules changes.
