Park Suhyun, Chungnam Governor Candidate: "Will Resign as Lawmaker at the End of This Month After National Assembly Session Ends"

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Assemblyman Paek Suhyun (representing Gongju, Buyeo, and Cheongyang in South Chungcheong Province), who has been officially selected as the Democratic Party of Korea's candidate for the Chungcheongnam-do governor in the June 3 local elections, announced that he will resign at the end of this month.

On the 31st of last month, at the joint final debate for selecting the Democratic Party of Korea’s candidate for the Chungcheongnam-do gubernatorial election held at the Democratic Party headquarters in Yeouido, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, preliminary candidate Paek Suhyun is taking a commemorative photo. Photo by Yonhap News Agency

In an interview on YTN Radio's "News Myeongdang with Jang Seongcheol" on this day, candidate Paek stated, "The resignation will take place on either the 29th or 30th of this month."

Paek went on to explain, "Resigning from the National Assembly during a parliamentary session requires a resolution in the plenary session, which makes it difficult. Once the session ends on the 28th, if I resign during the recess, the resignation letter can be submitted directly to the Speaker of the National Assembly and will be accepted immediately."

He added, "It is already a shameful thing not to complete my full term as a National Assembly member, but it would be unthinkable to deliberately leave the seat vacant even for a single day."

In response to a question about whether Busan mayoral candidate Jeon Jae-su would also not be resigning in May, Paek replied, "That is correct," and added, "Representative Jeong Cheongrae has already declared that there will be no such tricks."

Regarding speculation that former chief presidential secretary Jeong Jinseok might run in the by-election created by Paek's resignation, he said, "It is unreasonable to predict that former chief secretary Jeong would run." He continued, "It has only been a few days since a grave historical mistake was made before democracy, the people, and the nation. As someone who served as chief presidential secretary to former President Yoon Suk-yeol, and while the process of addressing insurrection and implementing reforms is still ongoing and the normalization of the Republic of Korea is underway, who could imagine running in a parliamentary by-election at this time?"

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