After Lee Sang-min's Party Resignation Fallout... "Pro-Myeong Faction Involved in School Violence" vs "Is Supporting Resignation Normal?"

Jo Eungcheon "Much younger juniors criticize... It's regrettable"
Jeon Yonggi "Lee Sangmin, hurt the party trying to become National Assembly Speaker"

Democratic Party lawmaker Cho Eung-cheon harshly criticized the pro-Lee Jae-myung faction for their reaction to Lee Sang-min's departure from the party, likening them to "school violence perpetrators," while fellow Democratic Party lawmaker Jeon Yong-gi raised his voice, asking, "Is it normal to support leaving the party?"

On the 5th, Cho stated on BBS Radio's 'Jeon Young-shin's Morning Journal' regarding Lee Sang-min, an independent lawmaker who left the Democratic Party, and the fierce criticism within the party that he "sold out the party and comrades to become the Speaker of the National Assembly," saying, "After Lee left, seeing the party cynically talking behind his back was quite regrettable and surprising."

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Cho continued, "It is the first-term lawmakers, much younger juniors, who are doing this," adding, "I had thought the pro-Lee Jae-myung faction were mere bystanders to school violence, but now it feels like they were perpetrators who bullied Moon Dong-eun along with Park Yeon-jin in 'The Glory.'"

In response, Jeon, classified as part of the pro-Lee faction, countered that defending Lee, who left the party, was inappropriate. On the same day, Jeon wrote on his Facebook, "Is Lee Sang-min, a five-term veteran who said everything he wanted and hurt the party, and left to become the Speaker of the National Assembly, a victim of school violence? If so, is it normal to support someone who betrayed the party and comrades and left without criticism?"

Meanwhile, on the 3rd, Lee declared his departure from the Democratic Party, claiming that since the 'Lee Jae-myung regime,' the party had become a personal faction and had degenerated into a 'Gaeddal Party' due to its hardline supporters. Within the Democratic Party, criticism arose suggesting that Lee left to secure the Speaker position, but Lee stated, "If I were truly desperate to become Speaker, there would be no reason to leave the party."

On the 4th, Lee said on MBN's 'News Wide,' "Of course, I have the ambition to become Speaker. It is a personal hope and goal," but added, "However, shouldn't we criticize the Lee Jae-myung leadership that is out of touch with public sentiment?"

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