Yoon Visits Bupyeong: "Talking About Constitutional Amendment with Ten Days Left is Fraud... Don't Believe It"

Regarding the Democratic Party's Political Reform Plan: "Watering Down, Fraud... Not Truthful"

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[Asia Economy Reporters Baek Kyunghwan and Kang Joohee] On the 26th, Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate, who was campaigning across the western Seoul area and Incheon, criticized the political reform plan proposed by the Democratic Party of Korea, saying, "Everyone who talks about constitutional amendments ten days before the election is a fraud, so don't believe them." Regarding the pledges made by Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party candidate, he also said, "Ignoring experts, colluding among themselves, lying?people should no longer be deceived," and criticized, "Election pledges are based on lies and are not truthful, like Olympic gold medalists in lying."

On the same day, during a focused campaign in the Cultural Street of Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, Yoon said, "Can we trust the political reform plan announced by the Democratic Party?" Earlier, Song Young-gil, the Democratic Party leader, announced a national unity political reform plan that guarantees a multi-party system and promotes a constitutional amendment within a year to introduce a four-year two-term presidency and a runoff voting system. This was intended to attract candidates like Ahn Cheol-soo of the People’s Party and Sim Sang-jung of the Justice Party.

In response, Yoon criticized, "Since the people are demanding a regime change, this is a smokescreen and fraud to shift the frame to political reform." He added, "Last time, they said they would ban more than three terms, but even within the party, it was deemed unreasonable, so the first show fizzled out. Yesterday, they put on a second show. Is this genuine?" He further said, "They deceive the public repeatedly like this. If so, they should have presented it from the start of the election."

He also pointed out the 'runoff voting system' included in the political reform plan. Yoon said, "Shouldn't the Democratic Party primary candidates Lee Jae-myung and Lee Nak-yon have had a runoff vote?" He added, "But they ignored it and pushed it through. They disregarded Supreme Court precedents and just forced it through."

The Daejang-dong scandal was also mentioned. Yoon said, "Among corruption, the most symbolic and ignorant is Daejang-dong," and stated, "Kim Man-bae’s group took 350 million won and pocketed 850 billion won, and money keeps flowing in. Is this me or is this a country?"

He also defined this presidential election as "a battle between the great, sensible people of the Republic of Korea and Lee Jae-myung’s Democratic Party." Yoon said, "This election is a life-or-death battle over whether common sense, liberal democracy, and market economy survive or perish, whether there is a future or not, whether the economy prospers or regresses to a third-rate country. It is not a contest between the People Power Party and the Democratic Party."

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