"Proportional Representatives of the People's Future Will Be Candidates I Take Responsibility For"

Han Dong-hoon, Emergency Response Committee Chairman of the People Power Party, criticized the Reform New Party, which is currently experiencing internal strife, on the 19th, calling it a "subsidy fraud" and questioning, "Isn't it that they can't separate because of money?"


On his way to the party office that day, Han met with reporters and said, "I will say a word about the Reform New Party," and pointedly asked, "Was it all about money in the end?" He referred to the fact that the party, which gained more than five seats after Representative Yang Jeong-suk, who was independent, suddenly joined the Reform New Party on the 15th, thus qualifying for party subsidies, and claimed, "They recruited Representative Yang, who was even expelled from the Democratic Party the day before, to receive money made from the people's hard-earned taxes." He continued, "I think it is no different from cooking the books and committing subsidy fraud to form a party like a sham marriage with people who had completely different thoughts, then adjusting the number of representatives the day before to receive money," criticizing the party.


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Regarding the internal conflicts within the Reform New Party, he said, "They are trying to divorce in less than a week after the merger, and if they really split like a divorce, I think it is not an exaggeration to call this subsidy fraud," and asked, "Is this reform?" Han added, "Isn't this a method that even large existing parties don't use?" and said, "They are doing a method they were too ashamed to use."


Han also said about the Reform New Party, "Their behavior does not fit the word 'reform' at all," and added, "In the end, isn't it that they can't separate because of money?"


In addition, regarding the proportional representation party People’s Future, which is being prepared for establishment by the People Power Party, he said, "We will not fill it with pro-North Korean figures who cannot run under their own names, such as former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk," and added, "The proportional representation party we launch will have candidates that I am responsible for."



Meanwhile, at the Emergency Response Committee meeting that day, Han said about the recent rise in approval ratings, "I think nothing has changed at all," and added, "It is still difficult and we are still in a chasing position." He said, "When I accepted the position of Emergency Response Committee Chairman, I said it was the bottom of the ninth inning, two outs, two strikes, and nothing has changed since then."


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