Kim Du-kwan: "Lee Jae-myung Should Lead Emergency Committee... 'Real Estate Responsibility' Kim Hyun-mi and Noh Young-min Should Also Be Expelled"

"A Strong Leader Needed to Lead Local Elections"
"Moon Administration and Democratic Party, Politics of Dividing Spoils Among Themselves and Revolving Door Appointments"
"Party Members Who Supported Yoon Should Also Be Expelled"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Ki-min Lee] On the 11th, Kim Du-gwan, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, stated, "I believe candidate Lee Jae-myung should take on the role of emergency committee chairman to innovate the Democratic Party and lead the local elections."

On the same day, Kim posted on his social media (SNS) a message titled "We must hold the local elections with Lee Jae-myung as the emergency committee chairman," expressing this view.

Kim analyzed, "This is not a time of peace. Following the regime change, the prosecution's blade will fall upon the Democratic Party. If we lose the local elections in June, we cannot guarantee success in the next general election or the next presidential election. Especially, local elections, which are directly connected to the lives of residents, are as important as the presidential election. It is difficult to guarantee the prosecution's blade or victory in the local elections with the emergency committee centered on floor leader Yoon Ho-jung, which was formed somewhat tentatively."

He added, "Although this is not a message for candidate Lee who just finished the election, I think candidate Lee should take on the role of emergency committee chairman to innovate the Democratic Party and lead the local elections. Our party now needs a strong captain to lead the local elections. Preparing for the election with Yoon as the emergency committee chairman seems unfair to comrades preparing under worsening conditions. We must nominate candidate Lee as the emergency committee chairman," he emphasized.

Kim said, "Achieving the highest-ever vote share and performing well amid the regime change storm is commendable. We all deserve encouragement and consolation. You have worked very hard. However, the fact that we lost and were judged is an undeniable reality. Since we failed to recreate the regime, there must be causes. If we do not properly clear those causes, only defeat awaits us in the future," he pointed out.

He also criticized the Moon Jae-in administration, saying, "The Democratic Party ignored the impeachment coalition and candlelight coalition demanded by the candlelight protests and acted as if it had won the regime by doing well. They abandoned all those who had supported impeachment with difficulty and crossed the river (some Saenuri Party members at the time). How could they have persuaded the people with political reform and a unified government introduced just a month before the presidential election?"

Kim raised his voice again regarding personnel issues in the Democratic Party and the Moon administration. He said, "Arrogance that only we can carry out reform dominated the Democratic Party. They repeatedly engaged in revolving-door appointments and divided spoils politics among themselves, placing people lacking expertise in positions simply because they were on their side. They made personnel decisions like this for five years, and that is why we collapsed," he said strongly.

Regarding President-elect Yoon Seok-youl and the failure of prosecutorial reform, he criticized, "The ultimate failure in personnel appointments is President-elect Yoon Seok-youl. Who judged Yoon as the right person to carry out prosecutorial reform, and who recommended him to the president? No one has apologized." He continued, "Prosecutorial reform was a task that had to be completed within the first year of the regime. But incompetence and arrogance overlapped, and the timing was missed. We were caught up in Yoon Seok-youl's conspiracy to block prosecutorial reform by attacking Cho Kuk."

Kim also addressed the issue of former Blue House civil affairs chief Cho Kuk, saying, "The Cho Kuk issue made the Democratic Party a representative party of double standards. Even if emotionally or sentimentally you say no, if the people say yes, that is the reality. Despite having no way to win the people, they insisted no until the end, and some even now say President Moon should pardon Professor Jung Kyung-shim. This kind of factional logic and protecting one's own side has further distanced the people from the Democratic Party," he condemned.

He said, "The first thing the Democratic Party must do is a ruthless purge. Those responsible for the Cho Kuk incident, those who recommended Yoon Seok-youl, and those responsible for the real estate failures must be boldly removed." He criticized, "The start of personnel cleansing should begin with the expulsion of Noh Young-min (former presidential chief of staff), Kim Hyun-mi (former Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport), Kim Soo-hyun (former Blue House policy chief), and those responsible for real estate."

Furthermore, he stated that Democratic Party members who campaigned for President-elect Yoon should be expelled. Kim said, "During the primary, some intense confrontations were inevitable. However, after the party's presidential candidate was confirmed, we cannot overlook members who continuously and maliciously slandered our party's presidential candidate as registered party members," he criticized.

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