Democratic Party lawmaker Park Chan-dae, the party’s candidate for Incheon mayor, said he will make his official announcement of candidacy on April 22, launching his campaign in earnest.
Park told reporters on April 21 after visiting Bongha Village in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang province, and paying respects at the grave of the late President Roh Moo-hyun that he would “make the announcement tomorrow.”
It will be his formal entry 49 days after the party finalized its nomination on March 4. Park, a three-term National Assembly member representing Incheon’s Yeonsu A district, said he plans to submit his resignation from the Assembly on April 29.
Park also reiterated cooperation among candidates for top local government posts in the capital region. He visited the memorial with Jeong Won-oh, a Seoul mayoral candidate, and Choo Mi-ae, a Gyeonggi governor candidate. The three previously met in front of the National Assembly on April 12 and pledged to coordinate on campaign pledges and policy.
“I came to honor the spirit of Roh Moo-hyun once again,” Park said. Citing Roh’s remark that “the last bastion of democracy is the organized power of awake citizens,” Park said candidates for capital-region leadership posts symbolize that spirit.
He said campaign staff are “fiercely debating” to develop shared pledges for the capital region, adding that the candidates aim to honor Roh’s goal of building “a world where people live” through local autonomy and decentralization.
Park said the capital region’s 26 million residents are “a community of shared destiny,” and vowed to realize Roh’s dream by improving people’s lives and building “a world where people live.”
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