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After the unification of Candidates Yoon Seok-yeol and Ahn Cheol-soo broke down, the two sides started a battle for responsibility.
Candidate Yoon’s side was embarrassed that they even exchanged a draft agreement, and Ahn’s side refuted whether they wanted it to go well by spreading ridicule and fake news.
Correspondent Kim Jung-in reported.
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People’s Power argued that it might not understand the change in candidate Ahn Cheol-soo’s attitude.
Until yesterday morning, when I spoke to Candidate Yoon Seok-yeol on the phone, Candidate Ahn said that he was in the position that a discussion between working-level officials was necessary.
He said that he had previously drafted an agreement.
[성일종/국민의힘 의원 (KBS 라디오 ‘최경영의 최강시사’)]
“It’s very embarrassing..(I was involved in the negotiations) We had a lot of discussion and we even exchanged the drafts with each other.”
The People’s Party immediately responded.
Candidate Ahn said that if there was an idea of unification, it meant that the discussion between working-level officials should have already ended, and he drew the line that there was no such thing as ‘underground dialogue’ at the level of the person in charge.
He also criticized that the intention of the People’s Power was to label candidate Ahn with a unified tag and keep him worried until the election was over, and also criticized that candidate Yoon’s phone call was nothing more than an insincere feign.
In the meantime, while disparaging Candidate Ahn, he spread fake news such as ‘Governor of Gyeonggi-do’, and asked if he thought the unification would go well.
[이태규/국민의당 총괄선대본부장]
“You can’t do politics like that. Isn’t it very bad politics.. If you thought that (the people’s power) would do well, that would be an illusion or an arrogant attitude when I saw it. Look.”
The war of words continued even with the mention of yesterday, when CEO Lee Jun-seok said, ‘Does the people who drive the People’s Party car wash leave a note?’
The People’s Party said it was a terrible remark, and Chairman Lee did not hesitate to criticize candidate Ahn, saying that it should not be called ‘blasphemy’.
[권은희/국민의당 원내대표 (CBS 라디오 ‘김현정의 뉴스쇼’)]
“When I heard that remark, I thought, ‘It’s a terrible statement’… The human heart is supposed to be human, but there’s no such thing as a cognitive consensus…”
[이준석/국민의힘 대표 (KBS 라디오 ‘주진우 라이브’)]
“He’s always predicting regarding him as he does what he wants. It’s the opinion of people with egocentric thoughts. He’s mad at me for not treating me.”
The People’s Party nailed the negotiations as a complete breakdown.
However, regardless of whether the people’s power is successful or not, it is judged that it is advantageous to maintain interest in unification, so it is predicted that the nerve war between the two sides may continue until the last minute of the election.
This is Kim Jung-in from MBC News.
Video coverage: Jang Jae-hyeon, Park Joo-young / Video editing: Kim Jae-hwan
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