Kim Yun-sik challenges General Secretary Cho Jung-sik Audit Committee deems him unfit for “disobeying past appointments” Kim appeals for “abuse of position in the party” Pro-Nak Choi Seong, pro-president Han Jun- I ‘cut’ into constituencies
Representative Lee Jae-myeong and General Secretary Jo Jeong-sik. News
The noise around this is growing as potential Democratic Party of Korea candidates who challenged pro-Myeong (pro-Lee Jae-myung) constituencies have been declared ineligible to run and have been eliminated. The Bimyeong faction (not Lee Jae-myeong) is protesting, saying, “The leadership of the pro-Myung faction is unfairly eliminating competitors by privatizing the nomination system,” so the conflict over nominations between the factions is expected to intensify.
According to the Democratic Party, on the 19th, former Siheung Mayor Kim Yun-sik, who was preparing to run for the 22nd general election in Siheung-eul Region, Gyeonggi, was informed of his ineligibility as a candidate from the public election party officials. Candidate Verification Committee the day before. Siheung-eul’s current member is general secretary Jo Jeong-sik of the pro-Myeong faction. The party’s audit committee cited the fact that former mayor Kim disobeyed the party’s nomination results during the 21st general election as the reason for disqualifying him. Former mayor Kim filed a request for an interim injunction, dissatisfied with the party’s decision then to abandon its policy of electing Siheung as a constituency and giving a single nomination to General Secretary Cho. The Democratic Party said in a notice that day: “(Former Mayor Kim) not only applied for a preliminary injunction, but also filed a civil lawsuit against the Democratic Party seeking 100 million won in costs in two years and six months, and lost,” adding: “According to the party’s general and special regulations, “the reason for disqualification is the ‘significant violation of the party’s decision.’”
Former mayor Kim filed an objection with the party. In a phone call with Dong-A Ilbo on this day, he said: “Lawyer Kim Bong-ho, who also filed the request for the provisional injunction at the time, has been deemed fit to run for next year’s general election year.” and added: “General Secretary Cho is committing the atrocity of abusing his position as general secretary to eliminate his competitors.”
Former Goyang Mayor Choi Seong, a Lee Nak-linked candidate who was preparing to run for office in Goyang-eul, Gyeonggi-do, also received notice of his ineligibility from the party on the same day and filed a official objection. Goyang-eul is the constituency of pro-Myung faction lawmaker Han Jun-ho, who served as chairman of the party’s public relations committee. Former Mayor Choi held a press conference at the National Assembly with former Mayor Kim that day and said, “I was notified of disqualification for violating the party’s decision, such as not respecting party cooperation at all -government”.
“Principles and Common Sense,” a group of innovative lawmakers from the Democratic Party, issued a statement the same day, saying: “The verification of candidates for public office is not subject to privatization by the pro-Myung faction, including the Secretary General Cho,” and called for the resignations of General Secretary Cho and Kim Byeong-gi, chairman of the audit committee and senior vice president.
Reporter Kang Seong-hwi yolo@donga.com
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