2024-01-17 18:00:00
Attorney Hyeon Geun-taek. / Newsis
After Hyun Geun-taek, vice president of the Democratic Institute for Democracy, who is under investigation by the Democratic Party’s ethics inspection team for sexual harassment remarks, declared not to run in the general election on the 16th, there is a claim among Lee Jae-myung’s strong supporters that “Rep. Yoon Young-chan should also declare not to run.” The current vice-president is a pro-Myung faction figure who served as Representative Lee’s lawyer, and has been preparing to run for the central office in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, which is the constituency of Rep. Yoon of the non-Gyeonggi faction.
When news broke that the current vice-president would not run, Lee’s fan cafe ‘Jaemyung’s Village’ argued that “the current vice-president should at least run as an independent candidate.” They had previously joined as a group in signing a petition opposing disciplinary action against the current vice president. Regarding the current vice president’s candidacy as an independent candidate, there were opposing opinions, saying, “He should run,” and opposing opinions, saying, “(Democratic Party votes are divided) so that only good things can be done for the People Power Party.”
Criticism was also directed at Rep. Yoon. They agreed with the statement, “Yoon Young-chan, who committed the relevant act, must also declare not to run,” and “Yoon Young-chan should never be nominated.” On social media, Representative Lee’s supporters continued to argue such things as, “If they kicked out Hyun Geun-taek, they should kick out Yoon Young-chan as well,” “The actor in question, Yoon Young-chan, should be kicked out,” and “Not only Yoon Young-chan, but Rotten Subak (a disparaging expression of the underworld) should be kicked out as a group.” .
The pro-Myung faction within the party claims that the reason Rep. Yoon stayed after trying to leave the party was “because he judged that he could be nominated as the disciplinary action against his rival, the incumbent vice-president, was likely.” Spokesperson Park Seong-joon said on the radio on the 17th, “Of the four members of the Principles and Common Sense group (Representatives Won-wook Lee, Jong-min Kim, Eung-cheon Cho, and Young-chan Yoon), only three members left the party, and Principles and Common Sense lost its cause,” adding, “The internal party reform they advocated was not supported by their own nomination. “I went out to prove that it was for the good,” he said.
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