Hong Joon-pyo: "Korean Party is like abandoning the first wife and neglecting the children of the ex-wife"

Regarding the demand to run in a difficult area, "I've done enough for 25 years... Please let me stop"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] Former Liberty Korea Party leader Hong Joon-pyo stated on the 9th regarding the party's nomination management committee's demand to run in a difficult district, "I have done enough over the past 25 years. Please let me go now."

On the same day, Hong said on his Facebook, "At the moment of the showdown, I have never hesitated or cowardly avoided it even once," adding, "To prevent the party's dissolution, I resigned midway from the Gyeongnam governorship and ran in the desperate impeachment presidential election at the party's request to protect the party. This time is my last run to conclude my political schedule."

He pointed out, "Someone who has protected the party unwaveringly for the past 25 years is insulted with threats of beheading (효수, hyosu), while someone who has only been in politics for a year and has contributed nothing to the party is treated with a flower palanquin and served, and I am asked to just stand as a supporting role," adding, "It is truly regrettable that in the current political reality, those who supported impeachment and left the party during the impeachment are given carrots and called back."

He continued, "If that is political justice, I have no choice but to accept it, but it is difficult for me to accept it with my common sense."

Regarding discussions on conservative unification, former leader Hong said, "Looking at how the party is running these days, it is like abandoning the first wife and bringing in a stepmother, neglecting the children of the first wife who protected the house, and only focusing on calling back the children who set the house on fire and ran away," adding, "The eldest son is the priority, and the children who protected the house in difficult times come first. Even if unification happens, that level of loyalty must be maintained."

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