Ahn Sang-soo (; born 28 May 1946) is a South Korean

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of the

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who served as two-time mayor of

Incheon Incheon is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi Province to the east. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Incheon was home to just 4,700 people when it became an international port in 1883. As of February 2020, ...

from 2002 to 2010. In the 2010 local elections he lost his position to

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of the Democratic Party. He was a candidate for the Saenuri nomination in the 2012 presidential elections. As mayor, Ahn was responsible for initiating a range of expensive construction projects which have been implicated in causing financial difficulties. On November 22, 2019, while serving in the

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representing the opposition Liberty Korea party, he introduced an amendment to remove

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and

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from a list of violations of an anti-discrimination law. He used a poster that compared homosexual marriage to a picture of a woman marrying a dog.

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, - 1946 births Living people 21st-century mayors of places in South Korea Seoul National University alumni Liberty Korea Party politicians South Korean presidential candidates, 2012 Mayors of Incheon {{SouthKorea-politician-stub