Ruling Party's Public Office Committee: "Sexual Violence Secondary Harm and Other 'New 4 Major Evils and 4 Major Corruptions' Completely Excluded from Nomination" (Comprehensive)

Exclusion from Nomination Even After Pardon or Reinstatement for Fines or Higher
Primary Elections Through General Public Polls and Electorate Voting

The People Power Party's Nomination Management Committee has decided to completely exclude candidates involved in sexual violence, drug crimes, and other new four major evils and four major disqualifying corruptions from nominations. The same standards will apply even if the candidate has been pardoned or had their rights restored.

Jang Dong-hyeok, Secretary General of the People Power Party, stated on the 30th at the Yeouido party headquarters after the 3rd meeting, "Candidates who have been convicted as criminal offenders subject to public condemnation with a confirmed fine or higher, or who have received such a sentence at the time of nomination, will be completely excluded from nomination."

The same applies to those who have received a suspended sentence or higher as criminal offenders subject to public condemnation, or who have been sentenced to a suspended sentence or higher in a lower court at the time of nomination application, as well as those who have been pardoned or had their rights restored.

The new four major evils and four major disqualifying corruptions include △secondary sexual violence △workplace harassment △school violence △drug crimes. The four major disqualifying corruptions include △admission corruption involving children, spouses, and children △employment corruption △military service corruption involving the candidate, spouse, or children △nationality corruption involving children.

However, unlike these, drunk driving will lead to exclusion if there are three or more offenses within 20 years, two or more within 10 years as of the election day, and even one offense after the enforcement of the Yoon Chang-ho Act.

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After excluding disqualified candidates, the Nomination Committee will conduct regional interviews starting February 13. After the interviews, they plan to sequentially announce primary elections, single nominations, and priority recommendation regions.

The primary elections will be conducted through public opinion polls of the general public and voting by party members in the electoral college. Jung Young-hwan, Chair of the Nomination Management Committee, said, "The public opinion poll will have a sample size of 1,000, with two polling agencies each surveying 500 samples. It will be conducted via telephone interviews with measures to prevent reverse selection applied."

The party member electoral college voting will be conducted using the electoral college list and the list of responsible party members in the relevant electoral district. If there are fewer than 1,000 responsible party members, randomly selected general party members will be included. The voting method will be ARS telephone polling. The campaign period is a total of 4 days including the primary election day, and if a runoff is held, a total of 7 days including the runoff day. Additional points and deductions for the runoff will be applied the same as in the primary.

On the first day of applications for candidates running in 253 constituencies, a total of 87 candidates applied.

The Nomination Committee plans to complete the nominations for constituencies by the end of February. Secretary General Jang explained, "However, even after nominations, if there are disqualified candidates or other issues, nomination reviews may continue in some constituencies after February."

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