Myung Tae-gyun “Yon Seok-yeol is 2% ahead of Hong Jun-pyo”… Situations of manipulating public opinion in the presidential primary

Circumstances have been revealed that Myeong Tae-gyun, a key figure suspected of obstructing the nomination of President Yoon Seok-yeol and his wife, manipulated public opinion polls to favor President Yoon who was a candidate at the time when the People’s Power Party candidate for the primary. 20th presidential election.

According to a transcript published by News Tomato on the 15th, Mr. Myeong Kang Hye-kyung, an employee of the Korea Future Research Institute, called in September 2021 and said that the approval rate of President Yoon in People Power Party presidential candidate suitability level. 2 ~ higher than the result of Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo, who was the main candidate at the time. In a phone call with Mr. Kang on September 29, 2021, Mr. Myung said, “Please raise Yoon Seok-yeol a little and make him 2% ahead of Hong Jun-pyo,” and “Aren’t those young people there. ? “We need to increase the response coefficient so that (Yoon Seok-yeol) comes out 2-3% more than Hong (Jun-pyo),” he said.

Since Mayor Hong’s approval rating was higher than President Yoon’s among young people at the time, Mr. Myeong ordered only the sample of young people who answered that they supported President Yoon to construct, rather than the entire sample of people. in the 20s and 30s who responded to the survey It seems. According to a report on the results of a public poll conducted by the Korea Future Research Institute of 2,038 adult men and women nationwide on September 29, 2021, regarding the suitability of the People’s Power Party presidential candidate, Yoon Seok-yeol was rated at 33.0%, Hong Jun-pyo at 29.1%, and Yoo Seung-min at 12.4%. The gap between President Yoon and Mayor Hong was 3.9 percentage points, which is the 2 to 3 percentage points that Myung had indicated. Mr. Kang told News Tomato that the poll was an unpublished, self-reported survey and “was for reporting to President Yoon (not for publication).

Previously, Mayor Hong said that Myung had manipulated public opinion by joining President Yoon’s side during the presidential primary. On the 14th, Mayor Hong said on his social networking service (SNS), “During the last presidential primary, I knew that Mr. Myeong was on the side of candidate Yoon (Seok-yeol) and the manipulate public opinion, but I didn’t. accept a case,” saying, “In any case, primary public opinion polls are fair public opinion polls.” “Since it was conducted through a survey, it was believed that Mr. Myeong’s treatment would not affect the movement general,” he said. On this day, Myung posted on social media, “Mayor Hong, are you really confident? “Stop it, don’t embarrass me?” he said.

Mr. Kang is expected to appear as a witness at the National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee’s investigation into the Attorney General’s Office on the 21st. The Kyunghyang Shinmun contacted Mr. Myeong and Mr. Kang for an explanation, but they were unable to do so.