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The power of the people, ahead of the party convention in early March next year, decided to elect the party representative with only 100% party member votes without the previous public opinion polls.
It is the first time in 18 years to change the relevant party constitution and regulations, but the reaction within the party has been greatly mixed.
This is Reporter Lee Seong-hoon.
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The proposal decided by the People’s Power Emergency Response Committee is a proposal that reflects 70% of party member votes and 30% of public opinion polls when electing representatives, eliminating public opinion polls and reflecting only 100% of the results of party member votes.
[Jeong Jin-seok/Chairman of the People's Power Emergency Response Committee: (Political party) is a collection of people gathered to acquire power and successfully operate state affairs.
It is natural that party members with the same ideology, philosophy, and goals elect the party representative
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If the vote rate of the person with the most votes does not exceed 50%, the first and second place voters will go through a runoff.
Pro-Yoon-gye candidates welcomed the interpretation of the rule as favorable to candidates who reflected the so-called 'Yoon Shim', but non-Yoon-gye lawmakers protested at once.
Former lawmaker Seung-Min Yoo, who had been against President Seok-Yeol Yoon, criticized that "the president and Haek-gwan Yun are running out of power," and Rep. Cheol-Soo Ahn, who distanced himself from pro-Yun circles, said, "Isn't it like electing an alley leader or president of a social gathering?" He expressed his discomfort.
[Choi Jae-hyung / People's Power Innovation Committee (opposition to the party constitutional amendment): It is difficult to be free from such doubts that this rule has been changed in fear that a candidate of a particular force within the party will be elected.]
[Yoon Sang-hyun / People's Power Member (opposition to the party constitutional amendment) ): It is not just party members who exist, but we live in the storm of public sentiment, so what will we do if we get
rid
of the public sentiment ratio like that?
The provision to reflect 30% of the results of public opinion polls from 2004, during the days of the Grand National Party, disappeared after 18 years after 12 representatives were elected.
(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Park Jeong-sam)