Lee Jun-seok and the New Reform Party: Position on the Incorporation of Seoul and Division of Gyeonggi Province

2024-02-04 01:16:00

Lee Jun-seok, leader of the New Reform Party, stops by a store in Songjeong 1913 Market, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, on the afternoon of the 31st and takes a commemorative photo with a congratulatory sign. 2024.01.31. News 1
Lee Jun-seok, leader of the New Reform Party, said on the 4th that People Power Party Emergency Response Committee Chairman Han Dong-hoon had pledged to build a ‘mega Seoul’ in Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do, saying, ‘When the spring when magnolias bloom, Gimpo becomes Seoul,’ and said, “If we want to bring out the incorporation of Seoul again, we have to make the promise.” “We need to start by ‘adopting the party line,’” he criticized.

Representative Lee said on his Facebook page that day, “We must first gather the opinions of the heads of major regional organizations within the party, such as Oh Se-hoon, Yoo Jeong-bok, and Hong Jun-pyo, who expressed opposing positions. “It is irresponsible for the ruling party’s policies to be abused without coordination within the party and with heads of local governments,” he said.

Representative Lee said, “Mega Seoul is an impossible story because the referendum before the general election was procedurally aborted.”

Regarding Chairman Han’s announcement that he would simultaneously promote ‘Gyeonggi division’ along with the incorporation of Seoul, Representative Lee said, “It’s a surprise” and added, “You speak as if you largely accept the Democratic Party’s plan for the division of Gyeonggi Province, but Kim Seong-won of the People’s Power Party and Representative Choi Chun-sik also proposed a related bill and co-sponsored a similar bill proposed by the Democratic Party.”

He continued, “The same goes for the Gyeonggi Provincial Council. “Most lawmakers, regardless of whether they should be in the ruling or opposition party, spoke with one voice for the establishment of the ‘Gyeonggi Northern Special Self-Governing Province Special Committee,’” he said. “If Gimpo, Guri, Goyang, and Uijeongbu are separated from North Gyeonggi Province, nearly half of them will disappear, and the residents of North Gyeonggi Province are like this.” He said, “I doubt whether they would want a division of .”

At the same time, he said, “The simultaneous promotion of Mega Seoul and Gyeonggi Province’s Bundo Island will inevitably result in contradictions like hot iced Americano and round squares.”

Representative Lee also took aim at Chairman Han, saying, “And I hope that you will seriously answer and respond to these policy contradictions rather than responding by saying, ‘If you don’t like it, get married.’”

This was aimed at the war of words between the two people over Chairman Han’s earlier claim that National Assembly members’ expenses should be adjusted to the national median income level as part of the political reform plan.

Representative Lee criticized Chairman Han’s claim, saying, “It is a very emotional story,” and “If the President and the Minister of Justice say so, they will agree.” Chairman Han responded, “It’s like saying, ‘If you don’t like it, get married.’ “It’s a story that doesn’t make logical sense,” he responded.

(Seoul = News 1)

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