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Incumbent Mayor Faces Uphill Battle

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  • Published Mar 15, 2010 4:44 pm KST
  • Updated Mar 15, 2010 4:44 pm KST

By Lee Tae-hoon

Staff Reporter

Ahn Sang-soo, the incumbent mayor of Incheon, is facing an uphill battle ahead of the June 2 local elections with the growing speculation that Rep. Song Young-gil of the main opposition party will participate in the race.

Ahn has been widely touted as the most likely candidate to win in the country's second-largest port city, considering that all of the opposition candidates lag far behind him in recent surveys.

However, Ahn, former lawmaker of the governing Grand National Party (GNP), can no longer afford to let his guard down as Song of the Democratic Party (DP), who has