Another Nomination Controversy at United Party's Supreme Council... "It Is a Moral Duty to Consider Lee Eon-ju"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] At the Future United Party's Supreme Council meeting, another public controversy over candidate nominations erupted following former Supreme Council member Choi Soon-rye. Kim Won-seong, a Supreme Council member representing Future Forward 4.0 (Jeonjin Party), raised his voice, saying that "it is a matter of propriety to show consideration for Representative Lee Eon-ju."

At the Supreme Council meeting on the 5th, Kim stated, "If the party was founded through a party-to-party merger, I believe at least minimal courtesy should be extended to Representative Lee."

He added, "(Jeonjin Party) united about 12,000 people, including over a hundred former and current student council presidents who won against the pro-communist faction, a group that the existing Liberty Korea Party failed to rally. Even the passive Ahn Cheol-soo faction joined the conservative unification framework. Although Representative Lee was the only incumbent lawmaker, as a separate force from the former Saenuri Party, they became the cornerstone of the unification," raising his voice, "I want to ask if I am making an excessive demand."

Kim said, "Although only about 20 candidates ran from Jeonjin Party, ordinary workers in their 30s and 40s who could not be absorbed by existing political forces entered, representing the general public sentiment and symbolically revitalizing the unification. In the spirit of preserving unification, we have participated in the cause while soothing the dissatisfaction of existing party members, but not even showing consideration for Representative Lee, who represents this, is politically improper. I ask for serious consideration so that the cause of conservative unification is not damaged."

This is interpreted as a request to promptly decide on Representative Lee's position amid the controversy over the 'strategic nomination' in Busan Jung and Yeongdo districts. Earlier, former Supreme Council member Choi also protested his own cut-off (exclusion from nomination) at the Supreme Council meeting, saying, "People who have devoted everything to protect the party are being discarded like the 6-Du clan or Ha-ho," and subsequently joined the Liberty Republican Party, formed by the merger of Our Republican Party and the Liberty Unification Party.

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