Kwon Chilseung Declares Bid for Gyeonggi Governor: "A Gyeonggi with Solid Fundamentals"

Kwon Chilseung, lawmaker of the Democratic Party of Korea. Yonhap News

Kwon Chilseung, lawmaker of the Democratic Party of Korea, declared his candidacy for governor of Gyeonggi Province on February 3.

Holding a press conference in the briefing room of the Gyeonggi Provincial Council that day, Assemblyman Kwon said, "I declare my candidacy for governor of Gyeonggi Province for a Gyeonggi that is solid in its fundamentals, and for residents of Gyeonggi who are less exhausted."

Having served as a member of the 8th and 9th Gyeonggi Provincial Council, he emphasized that he has walked the Democratic Party path for some 30 years together with four presidents, as a working-level party official in the election planning team for presidential candidate Kim Daejung, a Blue House administrator under President Roh Moo-hyun, Minister of SMEs and Startups in the Moon Jae-in administration, and chief spokesperson when President Lee Jaemyung was party leader. Assemblyman Kwon said, "I am someone who started out as an ordinary resident of Gyeonggi and am prepared, having experienced both legislation and administration, and both central and local government."

Assemblyman Kwon pledged to establish a minimum-transfer transportation system, introduce a Gyeonggi-style regulatory free special zone, attract a demonstration complex for small modular reactors (SMRs), attract a heavy ion therapy center, set up a dispute mediation committee for small business owners, and boldly open up the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

Assemblyman Kwon's declaration that he will run for governor of Gyeonggi Province in the June 3 local elections is the third within the Democratic Party, following former lawmaker Yang Gidae and lawmaker Kim Byungjoo. With the reelection bid of incumbent governor Kim Dongyeon also virtually certain, National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee Chair Choo Mi-ae and lawmakers Kim Byungjoo, Han Junho, and Yeom Taeyoung are also being mentioned as potential candidates.

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