Lee Jun-seok: "It's like causing a 0-to-100 traffic accident and offering 1 million won to settle"

"Subjected to a Year and a Half of Lynch... Everyone Knows"

Former People Power Party leader Lee Jun-seok said on the 1st regarding Innovation Committee Chairman In Yo-han's request for a face-to-face meeting, "Even if I do that in a personal capacity, no one cares."

In an interview with CBS Radio's 'Kim Hyun-jung's News Show' that day, the former leader said, "He's not trying to start a political consulting firm, so what does he want to hear?" and added, "In my view, the most important thing right now is the ability to point out what is wrong."

He continued, "Yesterday, Chairman In met with former lawmaker Yoo Seung-min, so does that mean from tomorrow the People Power Party will stop criticizing Yoo Seung-min?" and criticized, "Isn't this double-playing?"

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Lee said, "I hope he corrects his thinking first," and added, "Officially, he is called the party leader who backstabbed everyone from the leader to the president, and on top of that, everyone knows that he lynched me for a year and a half."

He then compared the relationship between the party and himself to a traffic accident victim and perpetrator. Lee said, "For example, if a traffic accident happens and the fault is 0 to 100, you should talk accordingly, but if you say, 'I'll give you 1 million won, so accept it,' and I don't accept it, then saying 'You have a lot of emotional wounds' is just asking for a fight."

He also said, "While being the party leader, he caused me all kinds of trouble and tried to expel me, lynched me for a year and a half, and recently, seeing the Gangseo by-election, he thought he was going to die, so he said, 'I'll give you 1 million won, so settle.' If I don't, they say I'm narrow-minded. Then suddenly someone else appears who isn't even involved in the accident and says, 'It seems your heart is very hurt.'"

Regarding the Innovation Committee's recommendation for a general amnesty, he belittled it by saying, "It's like saying, 'You're narrow-minded if you don't accept 1 million won' when I have a broken leg with permanent aftereffects." The former leader said, "I have never once asked for the cancellation of disciplinary action or a pardon, but they are just playing among themselves," and added, "Later on, they will say, 'We tried to reconcile and offered 1 million won, so why don't you accept it?'"

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