With 100% Party Member Voting... Lee Jun-seok Says "Everything Except Winning the General Election Is Possible"

Repeated Anti-Yoon Faction Backlash... Yoo Seung-min: "Yoon's Private Remarks, Illegal Primary Election Interference"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kwon Hyun-ji] As the People Power Party speeds up efforts to expand the proportion of party member votes to 100% in the next party convention, backlash from the anti-Yoon faction, including former leader Lee Jun-seok and former lawmaker Yoo Seung-min, is mounting. They claim it is an attempt to eliminate former lawmaker Yoo, who is leading in public opinion polls.

On the 16th, former leader Lee posted on his Facebook regarding the movement to revise the People Power Party’s ‘party convention rules,’ saying, “Whether it’s 9 to 1 or 10 to 0 in the ratio of party member votes to public opinion polls, it only draws scorn.” He added, “In politics, when you want to produce strange results, you also use bonus point systems. For the party convention, just make it 100% party member votes and have the ‘mentor group’ evaluate and assign about a 20% bonus for temperament and security skills.” He continued, “If 5% plus a 20% bonus equals 1%, then just add an ‘absolute bonus.’ There’s nothing that can’t be done.” This is an accusation that the People Power Party is using any means necessary to create rules unfavorable to former lawmaker Yoo.

Former leader Lee sarcastically said, “If you proceed step by step like that, everything except winning the general election can be done as you please. A 20% bonus, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll propose a ‘20-point system.’”

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Former lawmaker Yoo opposed the report from the previous day that President Yoon Suk-yeol privately mentioned “raising the proportion of party member votes to 100%,” calling it “serious illegal interference in the primary.” He said, “When President Yoon was a prosecutor, he was the special prosecutor team leader who sought a 45-year sentence for former President Park Geun-hye, who was ultimately sentenced to 22 years. Among those charges, Park received a 2-year prison sentence for interference in candidate selection.” He emphasized, “The public official who must strictly abide by the Constitution and laws more than anyone else is the president.” He then listed constitutional and legal provisions that stipulate the political neutrality obligation of public officials and the prohibition of campaigning in party primaries.

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