Handonghun: "Saying Our Nomination Lacks Impact Is Unreasonable... It's the Merit of Senior Members Who Sacrificed"

"Democratic Party, Clearly Turning into Tongjindang"

Handonghun, Emergency Response Committee Chairman of the People Power Party, is speaking at the Emergency Response Committee meeting held at the Central Party Office in Yeouido, Seoul on the 26th. Photo by Kim Hyunmin kimhyun81@

Han Dong-hoon, the Emergency Response Committee Chairman of the People Power Party, rebutted criticisms that the party's first primary lacked reform as all incumbent local district lawmakers survived.

On the morning of the 26th, at the central party headquarters in Yeouido during the Emergency Response Meeting, Chairman Han said, "Some people are unfairly criticizing ('eokka') our nomination process for being unusually quiet compared to other parties, calling it unimpressive," adding, "The quiet nomination is not our credit but the credit of the senior members who sacrificed impressively and the candidates who accepted the results." 'Eokka' is a slang term meaning to criticize unfairly.

He also stated that the criticism of the Democratic Party for merging satellite parties with the Progressive Party is not so-called 'color politics.' Chairman Han emphasized, "I keep repeating that this is not color politics but a matter of fact," and added, "The Democratic Party is clearly becoming the Unified Progressive Party (Tongjindang)."

He continued, "In the last general election, even the Democratic Party judged including the Tongjindang faction in satellite parties as crossing the line and excluded them, as far as I remember," and said, "Now, they are explicitly dividing proportional seats and even offering winnable district seats such as Ulsan Buk-gu to the Tongjindang faction."

Chairman Han expressed concern, saying, "It is truly worrisome what the next four years will be like if these people enter the National Assembly," and claimed, "Four years is enough time to ruin the country and destroy the lives of the people."

Furthermore, he urged, "The reason the people support us now is not because we are doing well, but because we are the only force that can stop such things," and added, "Let us take responsibility and do our best more diligently and earnestly."

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