Jo O-seop "Jeong Jun-ho Preliminary Candidate Must Clarify Position on Illegal Election Campaigning"

Public Inquiry Letter Sent Regarding Position Statement on Referral to Prosecution After Election Commission Investigation

Jeong Jun-ho, a preliminary candidate nominated by the Democratic Party of Korea for the 22nd National Assembly election in Buk-gu (Gap), Gwangju Metropolitan City, has been confirmed to have been reported to the prosecution by the Gwangju City Election Commission after an investigation into allegations that he operated an illegal promotional call room during the election campaign.

In response, Assemblyman Jo Oh-seop demanded a public response from Jeong's camp.

On the 28th, Assemblyman Jo announced that he sent a public inquiry letter to preliminary candidate Jeong Jun-ho, requesting his position on the illegal election campaign.

The public inquiry mainly covers three points: ▲ Sending promotional text messages with false information during the primary, constituting false statement publication ▲ Providing money or goods related to election campaigning under the name of telephone promotion allowances ▲ Whether proxy voting through call forwarding occurred.

Assemblyman Jo claimed, "Regarding the candidate promotional text messages sent en masse to the primary election voters by the Democratic Party, preliminary candidate Jeong, despite being in the status of a 'preliminary candidate' at the time, specified himself as the 'Democratic Party Buk-gu Gap National Assembly candidate,' a status and career not yet confirmed, thereby causing the central party to send the messages."

He added, "There are suspicions that preliminary candidate Jeong operated a telephone promotion room and promised to pay daily wages of 100,000 won to several telephone promoters or expressed such intent. Furthermore, on the day of the primary, there are allegations that telephone promoters forwarded calls to other people's phone numbers to enable proxy voting by party members and assured-number primary voters, thereby interfering with the primary and manipulating public opinion."

He continued, "All of these are matters that can be answered within a short time," and added, "For the proper judgment of the residents of Buk-gu Gap and the Democratic Party central party, please provide a public response by the 29th."

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