[Exclusive] 'Metropolitan Talent' Personnel Document Leaked to Competitors... People Power Party Jeju System Exposed

Central Committee Says "Sent It" vs. Provincial Party Says "Not Received": Dispute Over the Facts

Confidential Personnel Document Leaked to Proportional Representation Applicants

Executives Plot Backlash, Citing Lawsuit With Provincial Party Chair

People Power Party Jeju Provincial Party.

Even before the official document regarding the People Power Party's Central Committee's strategic policy for this election—the "Metropolitan Recommendation Talent" system—was formally received through official channels, the entire document, which was intended to select a proportional representative for the Jeju Provincial Council, was leaked in its entirety to existing proportional representative applicants, who are direct competitors. This is an unprecedented incident.

Moreover, based on the leaked document, some party executives conspired to stage collective action against the central committee's policy, even mentioning the personal legal dispute between the provincial party chair and the recommended candidate. Meanwhile, the Jeju Provincial Party was unable to confirm whether it had even received the document, making it difficult to avoid criticism that the reporting system and discipline within the party have completely collapsed.

According to local political circles and reporting by The Asia Business Daily on March 18, the People Power Party Central Committee recently sent an official document to the Jeju Provincial Party recommending Lee Myungsu, former secretary-general of the Jeju Provincial Party, as a proportional representative. This was part of the "Metropolitan Talent Recruitment (Metropolitan Recommendation Talent)" case, aimed at expanding the party's base and enhancing regional competitiveness.

The most serious issue is that this strategic personnel document from the central committee was, strangely enough, first leaked to the existing applicants for proportional representation and some party executives—those who would have to directly compete for nominations.

This is a critical breach, as the highest-level confidential personnel information, which determines the rules and candidates for nominations, was preemptively exposed to those with direct vested interests.

The confidential document, leaked through abnormal channels, immediately became the spark for organized backlash.

Text messages recently shared among key party executives, such as vice chairs, and proportional representation applicants, contained detailed discussions about refusing the central committee's recruitment directive and attempting to consolidate their own power base.

The author of the message highlighted the personal conflict, noting that the recommended former secretary-general Lee is currently involved in a lawsuit with Go Kicheol, the Jeju Provincial Party Chair.

The message continued, "Since the provincial party chair, who is a stakeholder, may find it difficult to take direct action, and since those who are running for proportional representation this time are also direct stakeholders, it's questionable whether sending a negative signal is appropriate," indirectly urging a joint response.

In particular, the message completely dismissed the central committee's strategic recruitment policy, stating, "If the rankings are determined by just one spot for the Metropolitan Recommendation Talent, are the people who applied for proportional representation at the provincial party just props?" The leaked personnel document was used as a weapon to protect the existing applicants' vested interests and fuel internal party conflict.

While the internal turmoil spread due to the leak and plans for backlash, the provincial party leadership is exposing the full extent of its systemic paralysis.

Although the central committee repeatedly confirmed, "The official document was sent," the Jeju Provincial Party, the intended recipient, responded, "It has neither arrived nor been confirmed," resulting in an abnormal situation in which the whereabouts of the official document cannot even be determined.

As a result, the official system, which should have received the central committee's talent recruitment directive, has become paralyzed, while confidential personnel information that leaked through unofficial channels has been reduced to a tool for factional conflict and backlash among competitors. This has exposed a serious breakdown in the election management capabilities of the People Power Party Jeju Provincial Party.

Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that Lee Myungsu, the former secretary-general recommended as a Metropolitan Recommendation Talent by the central committee, did not actually apply as a proportional representative candidate for the Jeju Provincial Council in this local election.

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