According to the article Ahn Cheol-soo is attracting conservative voters who have no other viable candidate to vote for in the upcoming ROK presidential election:
Ahn Cheol-soo
Presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo of the People’s Party has knocked frontrunner Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) off the top spot in several poll results released Sunday, a month before the May 9 election.
Moon, who had been leading the polls for months, slipped back to 32.7 percent as Ahn gained 36.8 percent in a poll conducted by Korea Research Center.
In the hypothetical two-way competition, Ahn beat Moon by over 10 percentage points, with 49.4 percent to Moon’s 36.2 percent.
Ahn was also neck and neck with Moon in other polls.
Another poll conducted by Hankook Research on the commission of Hankook Ilbo, the sister paper of The Korea Times, showed Moon gained 37.7 percent, and Ahn was on his heels, having 37 percent. [Korea Times]
You can read much more at the link, but to woo conservative voters Ahn has supported the THAAD deployment and maintaining tough sanctions on North Korea:
The more centrist Ahn Cheol-soo this week won the People’s Party nomination. He is currently second in the Realmeter poll at 34 percent, but he has been slowly closing the gap in recent weeks with Moon. The South Korean software mogul pulled out of the 2012 presidential election to support Moon, but this time he vows to stay in and expects to win.
On national security Ahn takes a somewhat tougher stance than Moon, supporting THAAD and international sanctions imposed on North Korea for breaching United Nations Security Council resolutions banning its nuclear program. But Ahn says he too would press for inter-Korean talks at some point.
“What is the purpose of putting in sanctions against North Korea? Because we would like to persuade them to come to the negotiating table at the time we want and under the conditions that we want,” said Ahn. [VOA News]
I guess the real question is if the conservative voters in a close election will be as motivated to turn out and vote for Ahn as Moon Jae-in’s voters will for him?
Ahn is the lesser of two evils. It’s better that Ahn wins, because the other option is Moon. Moon is known as a North Korea apologizer. The vote for Ahn is a last gasp of Korean conservatives of stopping Moon from coming to power which will strengthen North Korea’s position. They’re hoping that Ahn will keep his hard-line North Korea policy and keep a centrist view.
ChickenHead
7 years ago
Let Moon suck NK cack while Trump bombs them into submission.
Ahn is the Gates/Zuckerberg of Korea… a bullet into the back of his head would be the best for Korea/world.
I will happily explain further if you cannot understand.
Ahn is the lesser of two evils. It’s better that Ahn wins, because the other option is Moon. Moon is known as a North Korea apologizer. The vote for Ahn is a last gasp of Korean conservatives of stopping Moon from coming to power which will strengthen North Korea’s position. They’re hoping that Ahn will keep his hard-line North Korea policy and keep a centrist view.
Let Moon suck NK cack while Trump bombs them into submission.
Ahn is the Gates/Zuckerberg of Korea… a bullet into the back of his head would be the best for Korea/world.
I will happily explain further if you cannot understand.