Lee Seok-hyun After Primary Defeat: "Congratulations... Wishing Victory to the United Future Party"

Lee Seok-hyun, Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Midam] Lee Seok-hyun, a six-term lawmaker from the Democratic Party who lost in the primary election (Gyeonggi Anyang Dongan-gap), said on the 27th, "I congratulate the person who won the primary. I hope they will definitely defeat the Future United Party in the general election."

In a post on his Facebook on the same day, Lee said, "I wish for a landslide victory for the Democratic Party nationwide" and "expressed gratitude and apologies to everyone who supported this insufficient person."

He emphasized, "Regardless of the results of the previous suitability poll in Anyang Dongan-gap, our party declared it as a primary area for the sake of excitement," and "The rumor that I belong to the bottom 20% in legislative evaluation is completely untrue."

He continued, "This primary applied a 50-50 split between citizen voting and party member voting. In the citizen vote, I received 51%, and candidate Min Byeong-deok got 34%. In the party member vote, it was the opposite: Min Byeong-deok received 55%, and I got 34%," adding, "Combined, I lost by 4%."

According to the first round of the Democratic Party primary results announced the day before, Min Byeong-deok, an out-of-office candidate and lawyer, took first place in Gyeonggi Anyang Dongan-gap, surpassing Lee and proportional representative lawmaker Kwon Mi-hyeok.

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