Kim Min-seok Wins Jeju and Incheon with 47.75%... Combined Vote Totals Revealed

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The regional primary elections to select the Democratic Party's new leadership have entered their second week. Today (August 8), the choice of ordinary members in Jeju and Incheon was candidate Kim Min-seok.

Reporter Park Jae-yeon has the details.

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In the ordinary party member voting results for the Democratic Party's Jeju and Incheon regional primaries announced this evening, party leadership candidate Kim Min-seok took first place with 47.75% of the vote.

Candidate Chung Chung-rae came in second with 42.08%, while candidate Song Young-gil placed third with 10.17%.

While candidate Chung had led candidate Kim by a margin of about 1,200 votes when combining the previous Chungcheong region and Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam primary results, adding today's results puts candidate Kim ahead of candidate Chung by a margin of about 1,400 votes.

However, because a 5% weighting is applied to the Yeongnam region voting and tallied at the end, the vote margin may vary slightly.

In their earlier joint campaign speeches, candidate Kim appealed to party members by emphasizing the sharing of state governance philosophies between the party and the presidential office, candidate Chung by calling for an ethics inspection regarding suspicions surrounding Shincheonji, and candidate Song by calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae.

[Kim Min-seok / Democratic Party Leadership Candidate: Who shares more deeply the desperate state governance direction of the President at this critical time?]

[Chung Chung-rae / Democratic Party Leadership Candidate: Please prove through an ethics inspection that Shincheonji has nothing to do with the Democratic Party.]

[Song Young-gil / Democratic Party Leadership Candidate: The impeachment of Cho Hee-dae will be pushed forward by me, Song Young-gil. I will immediately suspend his duties. Judicial reform will be finalized by me, Song Young-gil.]

The ordinary party member voting results for the Supreme Council member candidates in the Jeju and Incheon regions ranked from first to fifth as follows: Park Sun-won, Choi Min-hee, Seo Mi-hwa, Han Min-su, and Kim Yong.

Following Jeju and Incheon, the Democratic Party will continue its convention regional primaries tomorrow in Gangwon and Daegu-Gyeongbuk.

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(Video Reported by Lee Seung-hwan and Kang Si-woo | Video Edited by Oh Young-taek)
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