Yoon Young-chan: "Innovation Committee, Not Touching Lee Jae-myung? It's Like Closing the Door and Looking for a Way"

Regarding the refusal of the Democratic Party Innovation Committee to evaluate the current leadership system, Yoon Young-chan, a pro-Lee Nak-yeon Democratic Party lawmaker, pointed out, "Isn't the Innovation Committee somewhat lost?"

On the 20th, on MBC's 'Kim Jong-bae's Focus,' Rep. Yoon said, "When people say, 'Isn't this an Innovation Committee to protect Lee Jae-myung?' and respond with 'That's not entirely wrong,' then the Innovation Committee has nothing to innovate."

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Earlier, Innovation Committee member Seo Bok-kyung appeared on SBS Radio and said that the criticism of being an 'Innovation Committee to protect Lee Jae-myung' "doesn't seem to be a wrong thought," which sparked controversy. Lee Min-chan, the standing deputy spokesperson of the People Power Party, criticized this in a statement, saying, "It is like confessing to being a guard unit to defend the Lee Jae-myung leadership system."

Rep. Yoon said, "The word 'innovation' means changing everything and renewing it, but our Innovation Committee drew a line saying that the Lee Jae-myung leadership system is not subject to evaluation," adding, "If you say you will not touch the current Lee Jae-myung leadership system, it is like closing the door and trying to find a path."

Regarding the Innovation Committee pointing to the 'arrogance of 180 seats' as the cause of defeat in the last presidential and local elections, he said, "Our party, after all, has a leadership, and decision-making is made centered on the party leadership, and based on that, our party has been operated until now," adding, "In such a situation, if you say everything is the problem of the 180 seats, all 180 lawmakers, the Innovation Committee is viewing the problem very loosely."

On the failed meeting between former leader Lee Nak-yeon and current leader Lee Jae-myung, the so-called 'Myeong-Nak meeting,' he said, "We tried to have the first meeting on the 11th and then again on the 19th, but on the 11th, there was heavy concentrated rain in the metropolitan area," adding, "Yesterday's situation involved more than 50 deaths and missing persons, and the party declared a total effort period for flood recovery, and even the standing committees are not meeting now, so it probably was not comfortable for the two to meet."

The Democratic Party cites the 'heavy rain' as the reason for postponing the meeting, but some media speculate that the strained relationship between the two influenced the delay. Regarding this, Rep. Yoon said, "That's fiction," and added, "This meeting happened because former leader Lee returned from studying abroad in the U.S. for a year, and on the day he came back, the current leader called and said, 'Let's meet and have a meal,' so the meeting was arranged; it was not a negotiation over any agenda."

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