Yoon Young-chan: "Song Young-gil Blames Moon Administration for Presidential Election Defeat... Pathetic"

Yoon Young-chan, Democratic Party Lawmaker's Facebook Post
"The Democratic Party Led by Song Young-gil Lost the Presidential Election"

Yoon Young-chan, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea and the first Blue House Senior Secretary for Public Communication under the Moon Jae-in administration, raised his voice against former Democratic Party leader Song Young-gil, saying, "The Yoon Seok-yeol government has been blaming the previous administration all along, and now even our party's former leader has joined in, which is truly pathetic."

On the 24th, Yoon said this through his Facebook, stating, "I have recently come to hear that former leader Song Young-gil criticized President Moon Jae-in and the previous government collectively in his recently published book."

Former Democratic Party leader Song Young-gil, who is under suspicion of money envelope allegations related to the party convention, is making a statement after leaving the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul, on the 7th without being questioned. Photo by Jinhyung Kang aymsdream@

Earlier, on the 17th, former leader Song published 'Song Young-gil's Declaration of War,' in which he described the birth of the Yoon Seok-yeol government as a 'legacy created by President Moon Jae-in and the Democratic Party,' arguing that "80% of the responsibility lies with the Moon Jae-in administration and Democratic Party lawmakers."

In response, Yoon pointed out that former leader Song is shifting the responsibility for the presidential election defeat. Yoon said, "I sincerely and seriously want to ask former leader Song once: Whose responsibility is it that we failed to inherit the approval ratings of former President Moon Jae-in, who retired with the highest approval ratings in constitutional history? Whose judgment was the election strategy that prevented us from proudly carrying on the achievements of the Moon Jae-in government?"

Yoon criticized, "It was former leader Song who took the lead in the self-destructive 'differentiation' frame that even belittled our government's achievements," adding, "Isn't the defeat of the Democratic Party, led by Song Young-gil at the time, the defeat of failing to connect President Moon Jae-in's retirement approval ratings to support for our candidate?"

He added, "More than anyone else, former leader Song Young-gil must well understand why we were not chosen by the people in the last presidential election."

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