Jin Joong-kwon: "Proportional Party to Block Impeachment? A Blatant Lie... Even Yoo Si-min Said 'It Was Too Much'"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Yoon Shin-won] Former Dongyang University professor Jin Joong-kwon criticized the Democratic Party on the 11th regarding its consideration of participating in a proportional representation coalition party, calling it "a nationwide scam by the Democratic Party using the excuse of preventing impeachment."

On the same day, Jin posted on his Facebook under the title "The Democratic Party's Nationwide Scam," stating, "Following the first installment on Cho Kuk, the second installment on the general election has begun. The subject of this work is the 'proportional satellite party.'

He said, "Lee Nak-yeon says, 'We are not trying to create (a proportional party),' but even he probably doesn't believe that." He pointed out, "There was already a report that five people including floor leader Lee In-young, Secretary-General Yoon Ho-jung, Party Representative Special Advisor Jeon Hae-cheol, and Representative Kim Jong-min met at a restaurant in Mapo-gu at the end of February and agreed to form a satellite party. No one would believe that the creation of a satellite party happening outside the party is being done without the Democratic Party's tacit consent."

He continued, "Yang Jeong-cheol (Director of the Democratic Research Institute) claimed that the proportional satellite party is to 'prevent presidential impeachment,' but that is a blatant lie." He explained, "Since 1987, no party has ever secured the 200 seats needed for impeachment, and even in the 2004 general election, when the Uri Party won a landslide victory due to the impeachment backlash, it only secured 152 seats. The worst-case scenario Yang Jeong-cheol proposed is the United Future Party winning 147 seats, which is far short of the seats needed for impeachment, proving that the justification of 'preventing impeachment' is false."

Jin added, "Using impeachment as an excuse is obvious," and argued, "It is to create a false sense of crisis to rally enthusiastic supporters, and it may also provide a reason for the loosely connected outer support base, weakened by the Cho Kuk incident and the administration's failures, to return to the polls. This is a 'fear marketing' tactic often used by politicians."

He also questioned, "They themselves know well that the purpose of the satellite party is not to prevent impeachment, and if even Yoo Si-min says, 'That was a bit much,' how serious must it be?"

Regarding Democratic Party leader Lee Hae-chan's remarks about accommodating minority parties, Jin said, "It's all a scam." He emphasized, "What is different from the United Future Party creating the Future Korea Party? The difference is that the United Future Party does it openly, while the Democratic Party uses proxies and borrows the form of 'sontaku' (tacit consent). In some ways, this is even worse."

He added, "Among the so-called 'pop-up parties' like the Future Party, Cho Kuk Party, and Son Hye-won-Jeong Bong-ju Party, only the Son Hye-won-Jeong Bong-ju Party has some supporters, but they will eventually join the Democratic Party through the proportional coalition party. I thought there was only money laundering, but Democratic Party people also do 'party laundering' like this."

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