2024-02-10 13:05:00
New Reform Party leader Lee Jun-seok, floor leader Yang Hyang-ja, New Future co-representatives Lee Nak-yeon and Kim Jong-min, New Choice co-representatives Geum Tae-seop and Cho Seong-ju, and Representatives Cho Eung-cheon and Lee Won-wook greeted holiday guests at Yongsan Station in Seoul on the 9th, the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday. there is. 2024.2.9 News 1
With the launch of the ‘New Reform Party’, a new integrated party in the 3rd zone, co-representative Lee Jun-seok said he would form a negotiating group by mid-March and was confident of winning number 3 in the 22nd general election.
Representative Lee said in an interview with MBN’s ‘News 7’ the previous day (the 9th), “We plan to increase (the number of seats) to 6 to 7 by next week,” and “Once the symbol is confirmed around mid-March, we can move forward as a negotiating group.” “I think there will be,” he said.
He said, “The ruling and opposition parties raised the satellite party symbol by moving lawmakers who did not run in the 2020 general election, but this time, neither the ruling nor opposition parties will have enough power to move seats.” He added, “The New Reform Party has symbol number 3 in the district and ballot paper number 3 in proportionality.” He said, “There won’t be much of a problem appearing in the first episode.”
Representative Lee said, “There are lawmakers who wish to join the New Reform Party in a situation where the ruling and opposition party nomination results are already coming out, or the cutoff results are coming out,” and added, “We are reviewing it internally and accepting it.”
The integrated ‘New Reform Party’, launched the day before, brought together all the third parties, including Representative Lee Nak-yeon’s New Future, Representatives Lee Won-wook and Cho Eung-cheon, who defected from the Democratic Party of Korea, New Choice, and Hope for Korea. There are four active lawmakers, including Kim Jong-min (Nonsan, Gyeryong, Geumsan, Chungcheongnam-do), Won-wook Lee (Hwaseong-eul, Gyeonggi-do), Eung-cheon Cho (Namyangju-gap, Gyeonggi-do), and Yang Hyang-ja (Seo-gu, Gwangju).
The Green Justice Party, currently the third largest party in the National Assembly, has 6 seats. If the New Reform Party secures more than 7 seats next week according to Lee’s plan, it can become the third largest party. To form an in-house negotiating group, more than 20 lawmakers are needed.
Meanwhile, the ruling and opposition parties criticized the new reform party, saying its identity was ambiguous.
Kim Ye-ryeong, spokesperson for the People Power Party, said, “We cannot help but have doubts regarding whether there is purity or intent,” and Democratic Party lawmaker Jin Seong-jun said, “Did he just abandon the party to be absorbed into Lee Jun-seok?”
(Seoul = News 1)
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