Progressive United Party "Put aside partisan interests... United Party's tactics are dirty tricks"

Senior figures from civil society held a press conference on the morning of the 28th at Heungsadan in Daehangno, proposing the establishment of the Political Reform Alliance to block the Future Korea Party and complete political reform.

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Cheol-eung] The Election Commission announced on the 5th the registration of the Preparatory Committee for the Formation of the Political Reform Union (Preparatory Committee). It is attempting to create a proportional representation coalition party of progressive parties in response to the satellite party of the United Future Party.

In the founding statement, the Preparatory Committee appealed, "We call on all political parties to humbly set aside their respective factional interests."

They added, "Let us uphold the spirit of the distorted election law correctly by any means and achieve the great goal of political reform together."

The Preparatory Committee also emphasized, "This is the will of the majority of the people and the way to improve the lives of those living in this country," adding, "To solve all the issues in our lives such as real estate, education, fine dust and climate crisis, human rights and welfare, and peace, the normalization of politics is the most prerequisite condition."

They strongly criticized the United Future Party. The Preparatory Committee stated, "The tactics the United Future Party is devising by putting forward a satellite party is an expression of their will to drag Korean politics as a whole into the gutter and fight in an environment where reason, rationality, and common sense do not exist, which they are most confident in, deceiving the entire nation."

They continued, "We must suppress the United Future Party's tricks with the second Candlelight spirit and realize the true meaning of the mixed-member proportional representation system. Furthermore, we must actively support the entry of progressive reform forces into the National Assembly and establish the foundations of direct democracy such as the national initiative system and the national recall system."

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