Kim Jae-won: "Lee Jae-myung Must Be Detained to Protect the People"

Kim Jae-won, a Supreme Council member of the People Power Party, expressed concern over the news that Jeon Mo, a former chief secretary and close aide during Lee Jae-myung's tenure as governor of Gyeonggi Province, was found dead, saying, "People related to Representative Lee continue to make tragic choices."

On the 10th, during CBS's 'Kim Hyun-jung's News Show,' Kim said, "Now, I think the way to end this tragedy is to quickly arrest Representative Lee in order to protect our people."

Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, is attending a meeting held on the 9th at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, aimed at eradicating school violence and supporting victim recovery. Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

Jeon Mo was a close aide who served as the first chief secretary when Lee was governor of Gyeonggi Province. After Lee Heon-wook resigned from Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Corporation (GH), Jeon served as acting president before retiring at the end of December last year.

The ruling party leadership raised their voices in criticism through social media, saying, "A reality scarier than a detective novel (Jang Ye-chan, Youth Supreme Council member)" and "Truly the 'Lee Jae-myung disaster' (Tae Young-ho, Supreme Council member)." Kim also said, "I think it is right for Representative Lee himself to humbly reflect before the people, confess his sins, and walk into prison now."

Regarding the 'Lee Jun-seok faction,' which suffered a complete defeat in this party convention, Kim gave a harsh assessment. He pointed out, "I fundamentally doubted whether those people actually ran to become party leadership," adding, "They did not show how they would run the party if they became party leader or leadership but conducted election campaigns resembling venting their frustrations."

On Cheon Ha-ram's proposal for a 'bottom-up nomination system,' Kim criticized, "While insisting that party members should be at the center to complete the bottom-up nomination system, they talked about sending certain lawmakers somewhere or cutting others. They might have thought it was thrilling and spoke recklessly, but from the public's perspective, it probably reinforced the idea that such people should not become party leadership."

Regarding the possibility of Lee Jun-seok following the 'Hong Jun-pyo path' after failing to receive the party nomination and winning as an independent in Daegu, Kim said, "Mayor Hong has long been active in our party and is not only a valuable asset but also a politically mature figure. Lee Jun-seok is not yet at that level, so it is an inappropriate analogy to ignore historical experience and equate himself in that way."

In this context, former National Intelligence Service Director Park Ji-won also predicted that if the non-mainstream faction suffers a nomination massacre, they might form a new party centered around Lee Jun-seok. Kim criticized, "Former Director Park has made many predictions recently, none of which have come true," adding, "Many, including Lee Jun-seok, saw the conservative camp as completely collapsed, packed up and left to form a party, admitted political failure, and then rejoined our People Power Party."

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