As opposition candidates who oppose Lee Ki-heung’s second term, seeking a third term as chairman of the Korea Sports Council, have reached an agreement in principle on unification, attention is being paid to the possibility of success.
Among the eight candidates who voted for the presidential election, Park Chang-beom, former president of the Korea Wushu Association, Kang Shin-wook, an honorary professor at Dankook University, Yoo Seung Min, former president of the Korea Table Tennis Association, and Ahn Sang-soo, former mayor of Incheon, held an emergency meeting on the 17th and agreed on the principle of unifying candidates.
Chairman Lee Ki-heung, who has led the sports association for the past eight years, has formed a common front called “anti-Lee Ki-heung solidarity” to prevent him from serving consecutive terms, judging that it is an “obstacle in the development of sports in Korea.”
These four candidates also agreed on two principles of unification.
They say that they will achieve the unification of candidates that the people and sportsmen want, and that they will narrow the gap until the 23rd, a day before candidate registration.
The basic goal of these candidates is to contact the rest of the candidates, including Kang Tae-sun, chairman of the Seoul Sports Council, to expand solidarity, and to produce the results of unification after further discussion.
The problem is that there are many mountains to overcome before unification is achieved. 토토사이트
This is because each candidate wants to unify themselves, and it is not easy to derive objective indicators that can lead to unification.
In the end, different candidates may have different ideas in the methodology for unification.
Following an hour-long general meeting to narrow the gap, the four candidates appeared serious, with Kang Shin-wook and Yoo Seung Min and Park Chang-beom and Ahn Sang-soo meeting separately for about an hour to discuss.
This is because there has been a consensus that the unification of “opposition candidates” is the only way to block Chairman Lee Ki-heung’s third term.
On the method of unification, candidates have said they will leave all possibilities open, including polls, but there are also practical difficulties.
This is because it is not easy to conduct a survey that all candidates can accept even if there is no clear regulation on the prohibition of public opinion polls under the election management regulations for the chairman of the sports council.
More than 2,300 electors will vote in the sports presidential election on January 14 next year.
It is virtually impossible to conduct a public opinion survey by reflecting the sampling group of executives, athletes, leaders, and referees from member sports organizations, municipal sports associations, and municipal sports associations.
This is because the election management committee of the chairman of the sports committee randomly draws 23,000 people, which is 10 times the number of electors, and sets up a delegation of electors by drawing 2,300 people.
There is only about a week left before the unification of candidates.
To register as a candidate on the 24th and 25th, 70 million won must be donated, and the deposit cannot be returned if it fails to record 20% of the vote in the election.
This is why the candidates have to come up with a unified conclusion by the 24th.
The desire and will of the opposition candidates for unification of the chairman of the sports body are stronger than ever, and the attitude toward unification is also serious.
Candidate Park Chang-beom, who arranged the four-way meeting, said, “As we have agreed on a unified representation, the candidates agreed that we will reach a conclusion in some way by the 23rd,” adding, “We will need to make a decision to give up ourselves in the end.”
Candidate Yoo Seung Min, who agreed on the principle of unification, also said, “All candidates agree on the change of the sports committee and the need for unification, but there was a disagreement on the methodology of creating indicators that anyone can accept,” adding, “We plan to draw a conclusion by the 23rd anyway.”
Attention is focusing on whether opposition candidates, who are united in the ring of “anti-Lee Ki-heung solidarity,” will be able to resolve their differences and draw a final conclusion by the 23rd.
