Kim Seongsik: "Democratic Party and United Party's Proportional Satellite Parties 'Trick'... They Will Surely Pay the Price"

"Even if You Make Fun of the People, There Are Limits...The Sovereign Will Raise the Whip"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] Independent lawmaker Kim Seong-sik (re-elected, Seoul Gwanak-gap) criticized on the 22nd, saying, "The satellite proportional representation parties recently formed by the Democratic Party and the United Future Party have reached the peak of trickery and foul play."

On Facebook that day, Rep. Kim said, "The two major parties are so obsessed with stealing the people's sovereignty that they have thrown away even their shame and have no qualms about doing whatever they want," adding, "They even openly backstab each other, calling it betrayal, and are attacking each other openly."

Rep. Kim stated, "Even if they underestimate the people, there are limits. If they recklessly go to such extremes, they will surely pay the price," and "The people will definitely wield the whip of sovereignty to make them fear the people."

As the secretary of the National Assembly's Special Committee on Political Reform, Rep. Kim led discussions on electoral reform. However, in December last year, he opposed the '4+1 negotiation final proposal' and did not participate in proposing amendments or voting. At that time, Rep. Kim said, "I cannot agree with the amended election law, where the cause of political reform has disappeared and the principle of mixed-member proportional representation has been trampled on," adding, "What is wrong is wrong."

Rep. Kim pointed out, "The 4+1 agreement (Democratic Party's forced proposal) reverted the proportional seats to the current 47 seats from the original plan (225 district seats and 75 proportional seats, semi-mixed system), fundamentally restricting improvements in proportionality, and limited the seats to which the mixed-member proportional system applies to 30 seats, further lowering the overall proportionality rate. From the perspective of alleviating the chronic regionalism in Korean politics, it also abolished the best loser system and regional proportional representation, which the Democratic Party had advocated. If these had remained, the so-called 'Proportional Korea Party' would have been a self-defeating move and difficult to implement."

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