Appointment of Hwang Jeong-geun as Chairman of the Central Ethics Committee of the Democratic Party... Shin Eui-jin as Chairman of the Party Affairs Audit Committee

New Floor Leader Appoints Key Party Officials

On the 13th, the People Power Party appointed key party officials, including Hwang Jeong-geun as the Chair of the Central Ethics Committee, at the Supreme Council meeting.

Senior Spokesperson Yoo Sang-beom told reporters after the meeting, "It was decided to appoint lawyer Hwang Jeong-geun as the Chair of the Central Ethics Committee and former 19th National Assembly member Shin Ui-jin as the Chair of the Party Audit Committee." Yoo explained that the newly appointed chairs and the party leadership will promptly organize the committee members through consultation.

Kim Ki-hyun, the leader of the People Power Party, is speaking at the Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly on the 13th. Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

At the meeting, new committee chairs within the party were also approved to coincide with the inauguration of the new floor leader. Choi Chun-sik was appointed as the Director of the Central Training Institute, former lawmaker Son In-chun as Chair of the Women’s Committee, lawmaker Lee Jong-seong as Chair of the Disability Committee, former Seoul Deputy Mayor for Political Affairs Song Ju-beom as Chair of the Local Autonomy Committee, lawmaker Jeong Dong-man as Chair of the External Cooperation Committee, lawmaker Kim Seok-ki as Chair of the Overseas Korean Committee, former lawmaker Lee Jae-young as Chair of the International Committee, lawmaker Jeong Hee-yong as Chair of the Disaster Countermeasures Committee, and Je Beom-hoon, Chair of the Parliamentary Staff Council, was appointed as Chair of the Parliamentary Staff Committee.

Kim Ga-ram, a Min-saeng 119 member and a candidate for the youth supreme council member at the March 8 party convention, was appointed as the party’s youth spokesperson.

Decisions were also made regarding five full-time deputy spokespersons and eight part-time deputy spokespersons. The full-time deputy spokespersons are mostly young people born in the 1990s, including Bae Yoon-joo, Vice Chair of the People Power Party Central University Student Committee (born in 1994).

Meanwhile, the party’s Policy Committee decided to publicly recruit one youth vice-chair and six youth committee members for the Policy Coordination Committee. At the Supreme Council meeting, Policy Committee Chair Park Dae-chul explained, "With the basic recognition that youth are the future, we aim to expand political participation of the 2030 generation by reflecting policies proposed by youth and establishing a youth-friendly policy integration system for policy development."

The selection method will be a hackathon open audition. Chair Park said, "Applications and evaluations will be conducted individually without distinction of selection categories, and one top candidate will be appointed as the youth vice-chair, followed by six youth committee members from the runners-up."

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