Lee Jun-seok “President Yoon was also involved in the nomination of the governor of Gangwon-do”… Did he try to hug Hwang Sang-mu?

On the 15th, Lee Jun-seok, a member of the New Reform Party, also revealed the content of the comments that then-president Yoon Seok-yeol gave him regarding the appointment of the mayor of Pohang, Gyeongbuk and senior -Gangseo-gu constituency in Seoul ahead of 2022 local elections.

Representative Lee met with reporters at the National Assembly on this day and explained the presidential intervention in nominations from two departments.

Representative Lee said that at the time he judged that the Gyeongbuk Provincial Party was making unfair nominations instead of officials such as the mayor of Pohang, and he raised the nomination authority to the Central Party at that time, received e message from President Yoon . Rep. Lee said, “A situation arose where the president kept telling me that nominations should not be made like this.”

Representative Lee said, “When I asked the provincial party chairman about the nomination of the mayor of Pohang, he told me, ‘Representative, the nomination is not supposed to include the opinion of the council president the party too?’” At the time, the provincial party chairman was Rev. Kim Jeong-jae, a pro-Yoon Seok-yeol group that held the constituency in Pohang. It is said that President Yoon asked Representative Lee to express Representative Kim’s wishes. Rep. Lee said, “It’s very unusual for the president-elect to speak against (regarding nominations).

Representative Lee said, “Regarding the appointment of the mayor of Pohang, the floor chief at the time, Kwon Seong-dong and I discussed it in a meeting and continued to oppose it, so we resolved a way somehow finally. According to the judgment of the party leadership, the nomination was given to Pohang mayor Lee Kang-deok instead of following the wishes of representative Kim.

Rep. Lee was asked why he met Mrs. Kim at the time and he explained, “I received information that a certain person was going around Pohang saying that he would be named because he was close to her Mrs. Kim, so I met Mrs. Kim to confirm with the person involved.” On this day, the media revealed a video of the two making a phone call with Rep. Lee and promising to meet.

Representative Lee said, “President Yoon spoke to me on the phone when he was nominated for the Gangseo-gu mayoral election in Seoul, three of the (Gangseo-gu) party council chairmen are against him and he should not to go on like this, so he said, ‘No, that’s it.’ (President Yoon) said, ‘If people always lose and do things like this, aren’t they helping the Democratic Party?’ and we shouldn’t listen to these people.” Rep. Lee said he could not do anything about naming the mayor of the area because it was a pre-determined matter by the Seoul Metropolitan Government.

Representative Lee cited the nomination of the Governor of Gangwon Province as an additional example of President Yoon’s involvement in the nomination. He said, “Governor Kim Jin-tae had a huge competitive advantage, but the president tried to nominate a candidate who was at a serious disadvantage. The ‘very unfavorable candidate’ seems to refer to Hwang Sang-moo, former Secretary General for Civil Society in the Office of the President, who received one nomination in April 2022 but withdraw. Former CEO Hwang was the head of the media strategy planning team during President Yoon’s presidential campaign.

Representative Lee said, “If the party was in a normal situation, the party leader would visit the chairman of the nomination management committee and ask him to make things right, but this was an unusual situation where did the party leader have to organize money. blanket and visit Kim Jin-tae (the current governor of Gangwon), who had staged a sit-in protest (against the rejection of the nomination), to suppress public opinion.” At that time, the party’s nomination management committee reversed its decision to hold a primary between former Chief Hwang and Governor Kim Jin-tae, and Governor Kim won the primary.

Rep. Lee said, “Why did Rep. Kim Jeong-jae go to the president to file a complaint without ever filing a complaint with me?” and he said, “When the power of the president was strong at the beginning of his administration, he knew about it (the interference in the election) but he passed it by.”

Representative Lee said, “The People’s Power Party has continued to meddle in party affairs with the party leader since the administration began,” and “Who created Han Dong-hoon?” Former CEO Kim Ki-hyun, who was good, was cut off and created by President Yoon. “Who cut Lee Jun-seok?” he raised his voice. He then said, “They are so happy to cut off the leader of the party, but I guess there was nothing wrong with the nomination.