The Democratic Party of Korea will postpone the in-person voting for party members in the Honam and metropolitan areas for the party leader election. The voting will be combined with the election scheduled for next month on the 2nd.

Democratic Party of Korea Jeong Cheong-rae (left) and Park Chan-dae, the candidate for party leader, are taking a commemorative photo at the joint speech event for the election of the party leader and supreme council members held at the Central Party Office in Yeouido, Seoul, on the 20th./Courtesy of News1

Park Sang-hyuk, the chief spokesperson for the Democratic Party, met with reporters after a closed-door Supreme Council meeting at the National Assembly on the 20th and said, "Starting tomorrow, we have decided to focus all our efforts on disaster recovery," adding, "To this end, we have decided to combine the in-person voting in the Honam and Gyeonggi-Incheon regions originally scheduled for the 26th and 27th and conduct it on August 2nd."

The Democratic Party plans to hold the Honam regional election in Gwangju on the 26th and the Gyeonggi-Incheon election at KINTEX in Goyang on the 27th. However, considering the support for damage from heavy rains, it has decided to combine these with the Seoul, Gangwon, and Jeju elections on the 2nd at KINTEX in Goyang, effectively conducting a 'one-shot vote.'

The decision made at that day's Supreme Council meeting is expected to be finalized following the resolution of the National Convention Preparation Committee. Previously, the Democratic Party had also replaced the schedule for the Chungcheong and Yeongnam regional elections on the 19th-20th with an online joint campaign.

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