Seoul ¨C South Korea¡¯s conservatives made another about-face on Saturday and reinstated their nominee, just hours after dropping him and reopening the nomination process as the divided party struggled for unity to challenge the liberal front-runner in a presidential election four weeks away.
People Power Party nominee Kim Moon-soo welcomed the decision, which was made after polling party members over whether to replace him with former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, whose late entry into the race derailed the consensus over its candidate for the snap June 3 presidential vote.
¡°Now everything will fall into place,¡± he said in a statement, promising to seek unity and build a ¡°big tent¡± coalition to take on liberal Democratic Party¡¯s candidate, Lee Jae-myung, when campaigning officially begins on Monday.
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