Park Deok-heum, chair of the People Power Party’s nomination committee, enters a briefing at party headquarters in Seoul on April 26 to announce the party’s Daegu mayoral candidate for the June 3 local elections. [Photo = Yonhap]
Rep. Choo Kyung-ho has been selected as the People Power Party’s candidate for Daegu mayor in the June 3 local elections. The party’s nomination committee also voted to make former lawmaker Yoo Eui-dong its sole recommended candidate in the Gyeonggi Province Pyeongtaek-eul by-election being held alongside the local vote.
Park Deok-heum, the committee chair, said at a briefing after a committee meeting on April 26 that “as a result of the primary, candidate Choo Kyung-ho was selected as the People Power Party’s Daegu mayoral candidate.”
Park added that the committee decided to “solely recommend candidate Yoo Eui-dong” for the Pyeongtaek-eul by-election, calling him “the best fit” to lead Pyeongtaek’s next leap forward, citing his policy experience, including as the party’s policy chief, and his three-term lawmaking career.
With the committee’s announcement, the Daegu mayoral race will pit Choo against Kim Boo-kyum, a former prime minister. The Pyeongtaek-eul seat, where Yoo was named the sole recommended candidate, is also a district where Cho Kuk, leader of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party, has declared his candidacy.
Park also said the party will, in principle, hold primaries to pick candidates for by-elections in nine districts that will become vacant because incumbent lawmakers are running in the local elections. A total of nine sitting lawmakers — including Choo and eight incumbent lawmakers nominated by the Democratic Party for metropolitan-level chief executive posts — are expected to resign their National Assembly seats within this month due to their local election bids.
Separately, the committee said it will reopen recruitment for a candidate in the Incheon Gyeyang-eul parliamentary by-election. Applications will be accepted April 27-28, followed by candidate interviews on April 29.
Park Deok-heum, the committee chair, said at a briefing after a committee meeting on April 26 that “as a result of the primary, candidate Choo Kyung-ho was selected as the People Power Party’s Daegu mayoral candidate.”
Park added that the committee decided to “solely recommend candidate Yoo Eui-dong” for the Pyeongtaek-eul by-election, calling him “the best fit” to lead Pyeongtaek’s next leap forward, citing his policy experience, including as the party’s policy chief, and his three-term lawmaking career.
With the committee’s announcement, the Daegu mayoral race will pit Choo against Kim Boo-kyum, a former prime minister. The Pyeongtaek-eul seat, where Yoo was named the sole recommended candidate, is also a district where Cho Kuk, leader of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party, has declared his candidacy.
Park also said the party will, in principle, hold primaries to pick candidates for by-elections in nine districts that will become vacant because incumbent lawmakers are running in the local elections. A total of nine sitting lawmakers — including Choo and eight incumbent lawmakers nominated by the Democratic Party for metropolitan-level chief executive posts — are expected to resign their National Assembly seats within this month due to their local election bids.
Separately, the committee said it will reopen recruitment for a candidate in the Incheon Gyeyang-eul parliamentary by-election. Applications will be accepted April 27-28, followed by candidate interviews on April 29.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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