Hong Joon-pyo "Lee Jun-seok-Yoo Seung-min New Party? Difficult to Gain Meaningful Votes Even If They Leave"

Hong Jun-pyo Daegu Mayor Facebook Post
"Next Year's General Election, Disadvantageous for the Third Zone"

Former People Power Party leader Lee Jun-seok and former People Power Party lawmaker Yoo Seung-min's 'new party formation rumor' was addressed by Hong Joon-pyo, Mayor of Daegu Metropolitan City, who said, "Even if they leave the party, it will be difficult to record a meaningful vote share."

On the 20th, Mayor Hong wrote on his Facebook, "Next year's general election will see the confrontation between camps reach its peak," predicting that an unfavorable election environment could be created for the third zone.

Former People Power Party leader Lee Jun-seok and Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo are attending the opening ceremony of the '2023 Daegu Chimaek Festival,' which opened last September at Duryu Baseball Stadium in Dalseo-gu, Daegu. Photo by Yonhap News

Mayor Hong emphasized, "Leaving not to win but to bring down our party inevitably plays a role like candidate Lee Jeong-hee did in the past presidential election, so it is difficult to gain public support," adding, "People who have once betrayed and split the party will never be supported by the public if they do such things again."

He continued, "The reason those two still have meaningful support is because they are still in our party and voicing different opinions," and said, "There is no need to worry at all about those two leaving the party to form a new party."

Furthermore, he stated, "Since they have experience with small leftover parties, this time it won't happen," and argued, "Election vote shares are not simply calculated arithmetically."

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