People Party appoints '3-term' Kwon Eun-hee as first floor leader of the 21st National Assembly

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyemin] The People’s Party has appointed Representative Kwon Eun-hee (46) as the first floor leader of the 21st National Assembly.

The People’s Party announced on the afternoon of the 26th that it confirmed this decision during a meeting of its parliamentary group held at the party headquarters in Mapo-gu, Seoul.

Representative Kwon, a former police officer, gained attention when she exposed the National Intelligence Service’s online manipulation scandal during the 18th presidential election while serving as the head of the investigation division at the Suseo Police Station in Seoul. She later ran as a candidate for the New Politics Alliance for Democracy (currently the Democratic Party of Korea) in the 2014 by-elections and was elected. In 2016, she switched to the People’s Party and was re-elected in the same constituency.

Afterward, Representative Kwon was affiliated with the Bareun Party and the Bareunmirae Party, a merger party of the Bareun Party and the United Future Party, but she left the party in February this year and joined the People’s Party newly founded by leader Ahn Cheol-soo for the 21st general election. In this National Assembly, she ran as a proportional representation candidate rather than a constituency representative and succeeded in winning a third term.

In this general election, the People’s Party had three proportional representation candidates elected: Choi Yeon-sook, Lee Tae-gyu, and Kwon Eun-hee.

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