2024-02-22 12:15:00
Rep. Lee Soo-jin (left) holds a press conference to withdraw from the Democratic Party of Korea in protest against the Democratic Party nomination cutoff on the 22nd, and Rep. Noh Woong-rae enters a sit-in protest at the party representative office./News 1
On the 22nd, the Democratic Party of Korea designated four constituencies with active members as strategic constituencies. The Democratic Party did not clearly state whether the lawmakers in question were subject to a cutoff (exclusion from nomination), but lawmakers who had been talking about a cutoff accepted it as a cutoff and strongly opposed it.
Lim Hyeok-baek, chairman of the Democratic Party’s Nomination Management Committee, said on this day, “The areas judged to need to be designated as strategic constituencies are Mapo-gap in Seoul, Dongjak-eul in Seoul, Uijeongbu-eul in Gyeonggi-do, Gwangmyeong-eul in Gyeonggi-do, and Hongseong Yesan in South Chungcheong Province.” There are four incumbent members of the Democratic Party in this district, including Noh Woong-rae (Mapo-gap, 4th election), Lee Su-jin (Dongjak-eul, first election), Kim Min-cheol (Uijeongbu-eul, first election), and Yang Ki-dae (Gwangmyeong-eul, first election). According to the Democratic Party’s rules, strategic constituency designation is possible when ‘the candidate’s competitiveness in the main election is significantly low’, so it is likely that the four incumbent members will be excluded from nomination. Rep. Noh Woong-rae is being tried on charges of bribery, and in the case of Rep. Lee Soo-jin, it is known that the Democratic Party conducted an opinion poll that included former Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae and former Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission Chairman Jeon Hyun-hee in the district, excluding Rep. Lee.
Rep. Lee Soo-jin declared her withdrawal from the party at a press conference at the National Assembly and said, “As I watched the Baekhyeon-dong ruling, I could not shake the thought that Representative Lee Jae-myung was lying to the people.” “After seeing the ruling, I told Representative Lee, ‘Leave the conduct of the general election to someone else and run for a second term. “I advised him to ‘step back,’ but this was not acceptable,” he said. The ruling that Rep. Lee referred to was the case in which Mr. Kim In-seop, who was indicted as a lobbyist in the ‘Baekhyeon-dong preferential development case’, was recently sentenced to five years in prison in the first trial. The court ruled that Mr. Kim made several requests for favors from 2014 to 2016 to Jeong Jin-sang, who was a close associate of Seongnam Mayor Lee Jae-myeong at the time, and that the license was granted according to the requests. However, CEO Lee Jae-myeong said, “I have not been in contact with Mr. Kim since 2012.” Representative Lee and Mr. Jeong were also indicted on charges of breach of trust in the Baekhyeon-dong incident in October last year and are currently undergoing trial in the first trial. In the legal world, there is talk that since the court judged that Mr. Kim’s lobbying was successful, the possibility that CEO Lee, who had the final approval authority at the time, was also guilty has increased.
Rep. Noh Woong-rae also held a press conference and said, “I am not the only one being tried for bribery, but making it a strategic area only for me is a clear rubber band standard,” and “This is the final version of unfair nominations and secret decisions.” He announced that he would go on an indefinite hunger strike in the Democratic Party leader’s conference room in the National Assembly headquarters. Rep. Yang Ki-dae said, “We are not ruling out nomination, and we understand that it will be discussed at the Strategic and Public Affairs Committee on the 23rd.”
On this day, strategic nominations for former Minister Choo Mi-ae, former National Assembly member Lee Eon-ju, and former Chairman Jeon Hyun-hee are being discussed in the metropolitan area, including areas designated as strategic election districts. Former Minister Chu has been designated as Dongjak-eul as a strategic constituency, and it is expected that he will face off against former People Power Party lawmaker Na Kyung-won here. There are rumors that Kang Dong-gap can run for former chairman Jeon, while incumbent lawmaker Jin Seon-mi is running for office. The former constituency of former lawmaker Lee Eon-ju, who was recently reinstated, is Gwangmyeong-eul, which was recently announced as a strategic area. Rumors also emerged that former Chief of Staff Lim Jong-seok was nominated for Seoul Middle School and Seongdong-gap, where he was preparing to run.
On the afternoon of February 22, 2024, at the National Assembly Communication Hall, Lee Su-jin, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, declared her withdrawal from the party in protest against the exclusion from nomination. Representative Lee said at a press conference that “Representative Lee Jae-myung was lying in the Baekhyeon-dong trial.”
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