Eonju Lee: "People Power Party Already a Shipwreck... If the Captain Is Incompetent, He Must Be Replaced"

"Disagreement on 'No Boarding Theory': 'Situational Awareness Is Completely Different'"
"Most Reasons for Low Evaluation Stem from the President"

Former People Power Party lawmaker Ianju Lee criticized the growing impact of Secretary-General Cheolgyu Lee's 'no boarding' remarks within the party on the 22nd, saying, "It's already a shipwreck, so what are you talking about?" and added, "The ship is already broken apart and sinking."

Earlier, on the 16th, Secretary-General Lee said at a closed-door party meeting, "Who would want to board a ship with passengers trying to sink it?" and "Passengers who row backwards or make holes in a perfectly fine ship cannot board."

As the remarks caused a stir, on the 21st, Secretary-General Lee clarified, "There was some distortion of my (boarding) remarks made at the party meeting," and explained, "What I said was not 'cannot board,' but that 'people who are on the ship together should not behave like that.'"

In response, former lawmaker Lee said in an interview with KBS Radio's 'Choi Kyung-young's Strong Current Affairs' on the same day, "In a situation where the ship has already wrecked, we need to either repair the ship quickly or everyone must get off and fend for themselves; some action must be taken," adding, "I am telling the captain, 'If we continue like this, everyone will die. Can't you see the ship is sinking?' but they are saying things like the ship is being holed by others."

Former People Power Party lawmaker Eonju Lee [Photo by Yonhap News]

He continued, "There is a huge difference in perception of the situation," and said, "(Secretary-General Lee) thinks the ship is perfectly fine and sailing well, yet he is saying things like the ship business is not working on a perfectly fine ship."

He then emphasized, "If the captain is incompetent, the captain must be replaced." When the host asked if he was referring to Representative Ki-hyun Kim as the captain, former lawmaker Lee replied, "The representative would bear the greatest responsibility," and added, "But if you look at it more broadly, it is the president, and you can't just replace the president, can you?"

Former lawmaker Lee pointed out, "The general election is a midterm evaluation, a judgment election," and said, "To receive a good evaluation, since most reasons for low evaluations stem from the president, it is necessary to analyze the parts that are going wrong with the president and the real power behind that authority and proceed correctly."

He also said, "If a large-scale repair is not done now, we might be heading down an irreversible path," and added, "If the appointment of Donggwan Lee (candidate for Chairman of the Korea Communications Commission) is forced through, causing an uproar in the media and infringing on press freedom, leading to an irreparable situation, and then if issues such as the death of Corporal Chaesugeun, the jamboree fiasco, and the flooding disaster in the underground passage of Osong-eup, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju City, Chungbuk Province arise without any resolution or accountability, and things just continue like this, wouldn't the national system collapse?"

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