2024-02-16 03:18:00
Lee Jae-myeong, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (left), is shaking hands with former lawmaker Lee Un-ju following a tea meeting at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the morning of the 16th. On this day, former lawmaker Lee was reinstated to the Democratic Party of Korea. News 1
Former lawmaker Lee Eon-ju, who left the People Power Party last month, announced on the 16th that he would return to the Democratic Party of Korea for the first time in seven years.
Former lawmaker Lee said at a press conference at the National Assembly that day, “I intend to join the cause of judging the Yoon Seok-yeol regime and setting the Republic of Korea straight from the Democratic Party, which is my political roots.”
Former lawmaker Lee was elected in Gwangmyeong-eul, Gyeonggi Province as a member of the Democratic United Party in the 19th general election in 2012 and was re-elected in the 2016 general election. After criticizing the pro-Moon faction within the party, he left the party and joined the People’s Party in April 2017, declaring his support for Ahn Cheol-soo, the People’s Party’s presidential candidate at the time.
Afterwards, he went through the Bareunmirae Party and joined the United Future Party (predecessor of the People Power Party). He was nominated by the United Future Party in the 2020 general election and ran for Nam-gu in Busan, but was defeated.
Former lawmaker Lee said of this bias, “My thoughts were short.” He said, “I was excited by the ‘Ahn Cheol-soo phenomenon’ and left the party dreaming of a new politics. Now that I have returned from wandering, I can now speak with courage. “I am always sorry to my party members, supporters, and fellow lawmakers,” he said.
He continued, “After in-depth experience with both parties, I found that the Democratic Party, although lacking, at least had a will for the public good and a duty to humanity.”
Former lawmaker Lee said, “We can no longer watch as authoritarianism privatizes power and destroys the country’s public system,” adding, “The people are wide-eyed with worry regarding whether President Yoon Seok-yeol’s reckless decision-making attitude will threaten the survival of the country.” “I stay up all night,” he said.
Lee Jae-myeong, leader of the Democratic Party, called former lawmaker Lee in the middle of last month and recommended that he return to the party in an effort to expand the scope of ‘judgment of the Yoon Seok-yeol regime’. However, the pro-Moon community is reacting coldly to the reinstatement of this former lawmaker who, following leaving the Democratic Party, worked as a ‘Moon Jae-in sniper’ and was even called the ‘Joan of Arc of conservatism’.
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