Slandering → Purpose of Personal Attack, Chairman Chung Mong-kyu Decides Not to Attend Election Candidate Debates
Feb 13, 2025
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Candidate Chung Mong-gyu's election office disclosed this on the 13th. The Election Commission had asked three candidates to submit their applications by 3 p.m. if they wanted to participate in the debate. Debates can only be held if all candidates agree under the KFA election regulations.
The 55th KFA presidential election, which was canceled twice, will be held on the 26th. The voter list lottery was held on the 11th. After receiving a list of people and an objection for three days from the 12th to the 14th, the Election Commission will confirm the list of electors on the 15th. Then a full-fledged campaign will take place.
At the first meeting on the 3rd, the newly formed election management committee decided to maintain the 'candidate status' of Chung Mong-kyu, chairman of the KFA, a visiting professor of sports record analysis at the Shinmun Myungji University Graduate School of Records and Information Science, and Huh Jung-moo, former chairman of the Hana Citizen Board in Daejeon.
Initially, the presidential election was scheduled to be held on the 8th of last month. However, it was postponed on the 7th, a day before the election, when the court cited Huh Jung-moo's application for an injunction against the election ban. The Election Commission has rescheduled the election for Jan. 23. However, as candidates Huh Jung-moo and Shin Moon-sun protested again, all members of the election management committee resigned. The second election also went up in smoke.
Candidate Chung Mong-gyu said in a declaration of reporters to run for office in December last year that he was willing to respond to sound policy debates. Since then, however, the election process has been crippled by slander and false claims from other candidates.
Chung Mong-gyu's camp has repeatedly urged other candidates to proceed with the regulatory election process and conduct policy elections, but the situation has not changed. Recently, he has raised the level of slander against candidate Chung Mong-gyu, citing the heartbreaking accidents of companies that are not related to soccer at all" protested.
And "If the debate is held under the current circumstances, it is too likely to proceed with slander and personal attacks, and there are concerns about the adverse effects of distrust and misunderstanding of the KFA."Candidate Chung Mong-gyu plans to focus on developing policies for the development of Korean soccer while directly listening and communicating with the electors and the soccer field during the rest of the election period."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
