The People’s Power held a general meeting of the National Assembly on the 1st and agreed to convert the party leadership into an emergency response committee system. 83 days following the inauguration of President Yoon Seok-yeol, the ruling party entered the non-captain system. Most of the morning newspapers on the 2nd criticized the people’s power’s transition to a non-substitute system and emphasized that ‘President Yoon himself is responsible’.
The Hankyoreh reported on the front page article ‘The ruling party that went as a non-captain, signs of turmoil over procedures’, saying, “It is a speed battle to get rid of the internal redness of the passport early, but the controversy over the fact that the party constitution and party rules do not meet the requirements for a non-captain conversion, and CEO Lee Jun-seok, who has been suspended for 6 months. It is expected that pain will be experienced, such as a backlash from the government,” he said.
The editorial said, “The members of the ruling party are divided according to their own political interests and are engaged in a self-restraint. ” he criticized.
He continued, “‘Heuk-Kwan Yoon’ (a key person in charge of Yoon Seok-yeol) is suspected of trying to change the CEO while carrying the ‘Yoon-shim’ who dislikes CEO Lee. They are fighting outside the market by using expressions such as “Everyone is only trying to take care of the political affair, and no one feels the responsibility.” The ruling party is becoming a trouble for the people,” he said.
In the ‘Sung Han-yong Column’, senior political reporter Sung Han-yong said, “The essence of the crisis that President Yoon Seok-yeol faced is the collapse of leadership due to loss of trust. The epicenter of injustice and ignorance is the president himself and the president’s office,” he said. Because the diagnosis is wrong, the prescription cannot work. Changing the leadership of the People’s Power will not have much effect,” he said.
The Kyunghyang Shinmun also said in an editorial, “It is a shame that the power of the people, which has won three consecutive victories from last year’s 4/7 re/by-election to this year’s presidential and local elections, has entered the non-captaining system following 80 days in power.” The ‘nuclear officers’ seemed to care only regarding President Yoon’s ‘planting security’ rather than taking care of the lives of the people. Even now, nuclear officers must completely withdraw their hands from their duties. The crisis will deepen if the power struggle is repeated in the process of forming a non-captain.”
He added, “The transition to the non-substitute system for the people’s power is only a very small part of the passport renewal. President Yoon himself is the epicenter of the crisis that the Yoon Seok-yeol administration is facing now. With a low and humble attitude, he must clearly state his will to respect the people’s feelings and renew state affairs,” he emphasized.
The Chosun Ilbo published an editorial titled ‘The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd parties of the National Assembly are all emergency response committees, is there any other country like this? Party members and policies remain the same, but when they want to appear to the public as if something has changed, they call for a renewal and recruit outside personnel to launch a non-captain. It is a deceptive means to cover up the problems faced by the party by applying powder paint rather than trying to solve them head-on.”
He added, “The opposition parties are ‘emergency’ because they lost the election, but the power of the people is called ‘emergency’ even following winning consecutive elections. The greatest responsibility for making things this way lies with President Yun Seok-yeol, who lacks humility and prudence. The people were tired of the incomprehensible self-defeating goals of the ruling party and the windswept in the plains. I just want the ruling party to come to their senses.”
Choi Min-woo, political editor of the JoongAng Ilbo, said in the opinion ‘Choi Min-woo’s Every Moment’, “Even if the approval rating of 30% is broken, the ruling party is still saddened by ‘Youn Heart’. The president said that it was ‘internal shooting’, but all responsibility rests on the person who exposed it. All tentacles will be devoted to figuring out ‘Yunshim’ if the non-captain system is in place.” “There is another root cause,” he said. It is the disappointment of ‘just Yoon Seok-yeol’.”
Kyunghyang’s fandom politics surrounding Lee Jae-myung do not change… Fandom Party ‘The Road to Self-Destruction’
Rep. Jae-myung Lee, who was running for the party leader at the Democratic National Convention, is controversial over the remarks related to the establishment of an online platform, which he made during a meeting with party members and supporters in the northern and central regions of Gyeongbuk on the 30th of last month in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province. The problem was that lawmaker Lee explained his purpose by saying, “I can criticize a lawmaker who wants to swear.” The newspapers on the morning of the 2nd paid attention to Lee’s remarks.
The Chosun Ilbo, in the 6-page article ‘Lee Jae-myung “Let’s create a platform to curse lawmakers” and Park Yong-jin and Kang Hoon-sik “Scare the opposition lawmakers,” said “Lee Jae-myung, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, said, ‘Let’s create an online platform to publicly curse lawmakers.'” Within the party, there was an interpretation that ‘Rep. Lee, who was a victim of a text bomb led by the ‘Munpa’ in the past, is now going to run fandom politics with his extreme supporters ‘dog daughters’ (daughters of reform).”
“Recently, Lee’s remarks have been controversial one following another,” he said. On the 29th of last month, Rep. Lee said, “There are many supporters of the people’s power in the low-educated and low-income class. Criticism poured in from inside and outside the party even on the 1st for the remark saying that it is because of the media environment,” he added.
In the article on page 5 of the JoongAng Ilbo article ‘Lee Jae-myung “We will create a platform to slander lawmakers” within the party “For mobilizing red guards,” the JoongAng Ilbo said, “The idea of an ‘innovative Democratic Party’ promoted by Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung as a banner is making waves both inside and outside the party.” The problem is that in the process of explaining his core innovation plan, ‘strengthening democracy and communication within the party,’ candidate Lee cited ‘building an online platform that can insult members of the National Assembly’ as an example. Within the Democratic Party, where ‘strong fandom politics’ has been discussed as the main reason for the defeat in the presidential and branch elections, there was even a fierce resistance from within the Democratic Party, saying, “Is this candidate trying to mobilize the Red Guard to start a Cultural Revolution?”
He continued, “As criticism continued, Candidate Lee’s side issued a notice on the same day, saying, “Candidate Lee proposed an ‘online communication platform for the free expression of opinions and direct participation in decision-making by party members and the public’. He once once more turned an arrow to critics, saying, “I distorted the purpose with only a portion of the remarks.” said
The Kyunghyang Shinmun reported in a column by Sogang University emeritus professor Son Ho-cheol, “While the purpose of a political party is to win by gaining the voters’ support, the fandom party is a ‘road of self-destruction’ that frowns on the general voters, especially the middle class who determine victory or defeat. It is not easy to get rid of it due to internal politics.” He said, “The Democrats moved on to ‘fan fight’ that fandom politics became an important cause of the presidential defeat, but they lost rather than self-reliance, but they fought well. And I ran for ‘self-nomination’, but I was defeated.”
He continued, “Despite the successive defeats and ‘judicial risks’, the fandom politics surrounding Rep. Lee did not change, and despite various concerns, Congressman Lee took up the challenge of the party. This is because there is ‘partisanism’ that says that it is better for my party to win and our party to lose than for the party to win. However, what is certain is the fact that the fandom party is a ‘road of self-destruction’ in the mid- to long-term.”
