Ahn Cheol-soo: "The Ethics Committee Should Have Disciplined Yesterday... Even Now, It's Too Late"

SBS Radio 'Kim Taehyun's Political Show' Interview
"Party Leader Must Set the Mood for Considering the Party's Future"

Ahn Cheol-soo, a member of the People Power Party, criticized the party's Central Ethics Committee on the 9th for postponing disciplinary decisions against Kim Jae-won and Tae Young-ho, saying, "The disciplinary decision should have been made yesterday. Even now, it is actually late."

In an interview on SBS Radio's 'Kim Tae-hyun's Political Show' that day, Ahn said, "More than whether to discipline or not, it is truly concerning that expectations for the current leadership are gradually diminishing."

Ahn stated, "After the party convention ended and the atmosphere was uplifted, it is the party leader's role to calm things down and create a mood to soberly consider the party's future," adding, "That was not done at first. Now, trying to control the atmosphere is too late." This appears to be a criticism implying that Kim Ki-hyun, the People Power Party leader, failed to manage the risks of top committee members' verbal missteps and other negative issues after the convention.

Ahn Cheol-soo, member of the People Power Party. [Photo by Yonhap News]

He continued, "You might not imagine this just by looking at my face, but when I was on the presidential transition committee, I enforced discipline from the very first meeting," saying, "I warned that if any transition committee member gave personal media interviews, they would be immediately dismissed." He explained, "As a result, until the end of the transition committee, not a single member gave a personal interview, making it the first transition committee without various controversies or problems."

Regarding the delay in the Ethics Committee's decision, he said, "I don't know the internal circumstances well," but added, "Since the nature of the two cases is different, it seems there was some deliberation about that."

Ahn speculated, "One (Kim) is related to Pastor Jeon Kwang-hoon of Sarang Jeil Church, and the other (Tae) did not directly leak the recording, but since it did not gain public sympathy, there seemed to be a dilemma about how to handle this issue. Although both are different in nature, it seems there were different concerns."

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