2024-07-08 15:38:09
Some outsiders suspected of making phone calls demanding Han Dong-hoon resign
Han Dong-hoon: “Some politicians are turning over the petition… Overcoming the old ways”
Won Hee-ryong: “Using the name ‘Yeonpanjang’ is a frame in itself”
“Past instigators, key members of a certain camp… nepotism”
Won Hee-ryong, the People Power Party’s leading candidate, said on the 7th regarding the controversy surrounding the “second petition” demanding the resignation of candidate Han Dong-hoon over the “text message suspicions of Ms. Kim Gun-hee,” saying, “It has nothing to do with our camp,” and “the petition frame itself is malicious instigation.”
After finishing a party member council meeting held at the office of Assemblywoman Kim Hee-jung in Yeonje-gu, Busan that afternoon, Candidate Won said to reporters, “The very name ‘Yeonpanjang’ is an attempt to frame it. The leaders of the previous Yeonpanjang are now core members of a certain camp,” targeting Candidate Han.
He continued, “The people who were the real instigators of the Yeonpanjang incident are now framing the incident as a Yeonpanjang incident, which is hypocritical,” and criticized, “This is malicious instigation aimed at manipulating the frame. They should reflect on themselves.”
He said, “After investigating, we found that (the demand for a candidate’s resignation by non-parliamentary figures) has nothing to do with our camp,” and “It seems like the movements occurring as non-parliamentary party chapter chairmen are seething over responsibility for the defeat in the general election are taking on an organized form.”
He continued, “It has nothing to do with our camp, but even if there were chairmen outside the party who support us, we told them that it would not help us achieve unity with the party, so we asked them to completely stop and refrain from making such attempts in the future.”
When the party’s election management committee pointed out that the presidential office should not be dragged into the party convention, suggesting sanctions for the intensifying conflict between candidates, he refuted the suggestion, saying, “It was not us who dragged the presidential office into the convention, but the other camps.”
He said of one candidate, “As for interference in party affairs, we saw this in the charges that led to the impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye and the 30-year prison sentence,” and asked, “On what basis are you dragging her into the charge of interference in party affairs? Even if (candidate Han) becomes the party leader, how can he restore the relationship between the party and the Blue House?”
He then said, “We must not cross the Rubicon. We must not engage the Office of the President in order to avoid responding to the issue (of Ms. Kim Kun-hee’s text message),” and pointed out that “the public and party members will be watching closely with anxiety about whether (the relationship between the ruling and opposition parties) is breaking down.”
It has been reported that some of the People Power Party’s non-parliamentary party committee chairmen had been calling other non-parliamentary figures since the previous day to ask whether they agreed with Candidate Han’s resignation. This suggests that Candidate Won Hee-ryong’s side is preparing a press conference at the National Assembly that afternoon to request Candidate Han’s resignation.
It has been reported that they demanded a choice between three options: ▲attend the press conference, ▲sign even if unable to attend, or ▲not attend, citing the fact that one candidate did not respond to Ms. Kim Kun-hee’s apology text message regarding the ‘allegation of accepting luxury handbags’.
One candidate counterattacked by calling the calls for his resignation a “second petition incident.” He likened it to the “petition incident” at the last national convention, when 53 first-term lawmakers circulated a petition to disqualify candidate Na Kyung-won.
He announced on his Facebook page that day, “Some politicians, including members of the election committee, are preparing a press conference this afternoon demanding my resignation as a candidate by circulating a petition because I demanded an apology publicly rather than through private channels,” and “I will overcome the outdated practice of petitioning.”
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