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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyemin] The New Conservative Party has decided to independently launch its nomination management committee (Nomination Committee) on the 5th of next month. The plan is to complete the nomination screening within February and inaugurate the Central Election Countermeasures Committee in early March. The Nomination Committee chairpersons will be divided between constituency and proportional representation, and the proportional representation Nomination Committee chairperson will be requested to be Representative Yoo Seung-min.

Lee Hye-hoon, head of the New Conservative Party's general election planning team, announced these detailed plans at the party leadership meeting held at the National Assembly on the morning of the 31st.

The New Conservative Party will first form the Central Party Nomination Committee and the Nomination Monitoring Youth Committee on February 5th to transition into a full-scale general election preparation system. The appointment of the Nomination Committee chairpersons, candidate recruitment, and nomination screening are planned to be completed within February.

Specifically, the Nomination Committee will accept constituency candidate applications from February 10th to 14th and complete the screening of single-recommendation candidates by constituency from February 20th to 24th. For primary election areas, the party will conduct internal primaries from late February to early March, aiming to complete all candidate nominations by March 9th. Lee stated, "Through additional discussions on detailed nomination and primary standards, the Central Election Countermeasures Committee will be inaugurated in early March," adding, "A victory resolution rally for nominees will be held on March 23rd, and candidate registration with the Election Commission will be completed between March 26th and 27th."

The New Conservative Party will also select one youth proportional representative through a three-stage screening process. The screening will utilize an 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) interview' as supplementary material for selection, followed by a TED-style presentation (PT) to select the final fourfold candidates, from which the Nomination Committee will choose the final youth proportional representative through a comprehensive evaluation.

Lee said, "We plan to separately establish and operate a 'Youth Candidate Support Center' to discover and support youth candidates," and added, "We will actively support youth candidates by creating a 'Total Care Package Program' that provides one-stop support for budget, publicity, and pledges." The New Conservative Party plans to provide youth candidates with up to 30 million KRW in financial support, including the Election Commission deposit, dedicated promotional vehicles, and campaign materials essential for election activities.

The fact that the New Conservative Party announced detailed plans for forming the Nomination Committee on the day of the first report meeting of the Innovation Integration Promotion Committee (Innovation Committee), which unites moderate and conservative forces, has led to analyses suggesting that this move emphasizes an electoral alliance rather than integration. Only Ha Tae-kyung, the responsible representative of the New Conservative Party, attended the report meeting that day, while Yoo Seung-min, chairman of the Conservative Reconstruction Committee, decided not to attend, reinforcing this analysis.

On the other hand, there is also an analysis that this is a strategy to enhance bargaining power before integration. Since the Korean Party has formed its own Nomination Committee, it is analyzed that the New Conservative Party also formed its own Nomination Committee to assert its views during future discussions on the composition of the integrated party's Nomination Committee.

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