"Nomination Massacre and Rampant Private Recommendations in a Melodrama" ... Gyeongnam Provincial Council's Kim Hayong and Jang Gyuseok Condemn People Power Party Statement

Chairman Kim Ha-yong (right) and Vice Chairman Jang Gyu-seok of the Gyeongnam Provincial Council issued a statement on the 9th condemning the Public Official Election Commission of the People Power Party's Gyeongnam Provincial Party.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Se-ryeong] Kim Ha-yong, Chairman of the Gyeongnam Provincial Council, and Jang Gyu-seok, Vice Chairman, condemned the People Power Party Gyeongnam Provincial Party’s Nomination Management Committee on the 9th.

At a press conference held in the Gyeongnam Provincial Council briefing room, the two claimed that a nomination massacre occurred against candidates from the People’s Party.

“In the relevant regions where candidates from the People’s Party applied for nomination, the nomination prioritized greed and vested interests, where fairness, common sense, political trust, and human decency cannot be found even if you look closely,” they said.

“Ignoring the spirit of the merger agreement, and despite not falling under the disqualification criteria set by the People Power Party, indiscriminate political massacres were carried out,” they fiercely criticized, calling it “a farce where there is no public nomination (公薦) but only rampant private nomination (私薦).”

They emphasized that Park Dae-chul, the relevant party association chairman, along with Lee Dal-gon, chairman of the Gyeongnam Provincial Party’s Nomination Committee, treated People’s Party candidates as if they were disgusting insects.

“These people are obsessed solely with placing their own people,” they raised their voices, “How desperate must they have been to ignore the agreement signed by their own party’s leader?”

They said that during the 20th presidential election, People’s Party candidate Ahn Cheol-soo led a regime change by a 0.7% margin through unifying candidacy with People Power Party candidate Yoon Seok-youl, and that without this unification, not only would regime change have failed, but the People Power Party might have been shattered.

According to the two, the People Power Party and the People’s Party declared a merger on April 18 and signed an agreement to fairly review local election candidates based on mutually agreed criteria.

The merger agreement, signed directly by the leaders of each party, specifies that in regions with four or more People’s Party nomination applicants, a 100% public opinion poll will be conducted as a preliminary primary to select three candidates, and in regions with three or fewer applicants, a 100% public opinion poll will be conducted directly for the main primary.

Chairman Kim and Vice Chairman Jang expressed their determination, saying, “We will steadfastly protect the People Power Party without yielding to the results and instill party democracy within the People Power Party,” and “We will take the lead to become a sound democratic party and earn the love of the people of Gyeongnam.”

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