Cho Kuk, leader of the Rebuilding Korea Party who is running in the parliamentary by-election for Pyeongtaek-B in Gyeonggi Province, emphasized on Wednesday that he "will devote all efforts trusting only in public sentiment and win by a margin of three votes."
"I, Cho Kuk, will continue my steady walk, trusting not in organizational power or political engineering, but in the sentiment of neighborhoods and streets," he wrote in a post on his social media on the same day.
"I gain strength from meeting the hearts of Pyeongtaek voters that transcend party affiliation or support," he said. "Whatever difficulties I face over the remaining month, I will break through them with the same resolve that led the early termination of prosecutorial dictatorship, the impeachment of Yoon Suk-yeol, and prosecutorial reform."
Regarding the Pyeongtaek-B election, Cho said, "This is not merely an election to choose one new lawmaker." He characterized it as "an election to decide whether to deploy a super-powerful engine to the National Assembly to complete major social reforms, including prosecutorial reform, in the Republic of Korea after the insurrection."
"This is an election to choose a figure with firm will and concrete plans to achieve the leap forward of Pyeongtaek, which has long remained in a state of haphazard and underdevelopment," he stressed. "I will be verified and evaluated by Pyeongtaek voters on these points."
"I am confident that I can do 12 times the work of any other candidate for the innovation of the Republic of Korea and the leap forward of Pyeongtaek," Cho said. "Victory comes not from political commentary or opinion polls, but from the collective intelligence of voters."
