Hong Joon-pyo: "Can We Blame Only Lee Jae-myung When Criminal Suspects Clash?" ... Appeals to Stop the 'Ojingeo Game Presidential Election' in Daegu

People Power Party presidential primary candidate Hong Joon-pyo is talking with former Board of Audit and Inspection Chairman Choi Jae-hyung at a press conference urging a special prosecution on the Daejang-dong corruption case held at the Daegu City Party Office on the 20th.
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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] “It will be a Squid Game presidential election where criminal suspects face off against each other.”

Hong Joon-pyo, a presidential primary candidate from the People Power Party, made this criticism regarding the assumption that former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol and Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung would meet in the presidential election.

On the 20th, during a meeting with reporters in Daegu, Hong stated, “If the two (Yoon Seok-yeol and Lee Jae-myung) go to the presidential election together, it will be a presidential election where criminal suspects face off. Then we cannot blame candidate Lee Jae-myung.”

After holding a press conference at the Daegu City Party Office in the morning to urge a special prosecution investigation into the Daejang-dong corruption case, Hong said, “The Democratic Party has already completed the investigation into the stock manipulation case involving Yoon’s wife. I heard that Lee Jong-pil, who fled, has confessed. But they are not proceeding with the investigation. Also, if the Corruption Investigation Office summons the prosecutor who viewed the indictment in the alleged complaint case, the connection would immediately come out, but they are not doing that either. Why not?”

He also pointed out, “Song Young-gil, the Democratic Party leader, has recently been loudly saying in various media that he wants Yoon Seok-yeol.”

Hong claims that if former Prosecutor General Yoon becomes the presidential candidate, he will not be able to overcome the Democratic Party’s offensive and the walls of investigative agencies.

He said, “Didn’t you see Lee Jae-myung’s attitude at the National Assembly audit? He shows that attitude at the audit, and he will show the same attitude later in TV debates or the presidential election. Can Yoon catch that? Even if we fight, I am better at it, smarter than Lee Jae-myung, and my policies are better.”

Hong appealed to the conservative heartland, the TK region, saying, “The biggest concern is that the presidential election should not become like Squid Game. A presidential election where criminal suspects face off is like Squid Game.”

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