Lee Jun-seok: "Will Be Rejected If Yoon Seok-yeol Wins? A Different Situation Will Arise"

"Discovering New Election Equations... System Unlikely to Break Down"

Lee Jun-seok, leader of the People Power Party, is speaking at a meeting with residents of Sinan County held at the Youth Center in Amhae-eup, Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do on the morning of the 3rd.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Yoon Seul-gi] Song Young-gil, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, stated, "If Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate, is elected, Lee Jun-seok, the party leader, and Hong Joon-pyo, a lawmaker, will inevitably be sidelined." In response, Lee Jun-seok rebutted, saying, "A different situation will arise."

On the 4th, Lee appeared on CBS Radio's 'Kim Hyun-jung's News Show' and said, "If Leader Song has such a strong premonition, I think he is judging based on his past experiences or something like that."

Lee added, "(Leader Song) has also consistently acted as a non-mainstream figure within the party and has now reached the position of leader," and argued, "So Leader Song has not always shown an image of being aligned with the regime."

He continued, "Since the local elections are coming soon, it is important to continue reorganizing the party's system in that context," and explained, "In our current election process, we believe that we have discovered new electoral equations for conservative parties, so there is little chance that this system itself will collapse."

Regarding the possibility of unification with Ahn Cheol-soo, the presidential candidate of the People Party, Lee said, " I understand that some members of our party, such as lawmaker Yoon Sang-hyun, have raised such discussions, but I think we are in the process of breaking away from past methods in elections," and pointed out, "There seems to be a significant philosophical difference between candidate Ahn and our candidate, and above all, there are not many points of contact between them."

He added, "Usually, the deadline for unification is considered to be 40 days before the election. But it is already close to 30 days, so considering past cases, I think it will be difficult."

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