Korean Senior Citizens Association “Ignoring the Right to Suffrage” Anger
Criticism of “no excuses” in the party
Lee Jae-myung, who led the innovation committee, raised the idea of responsibility
▲ Kim Eun-kyung, chairman of the Innovation Committee of the Democratic Party of Korea, is giving a greeting at the 2030 Youth Forum held at a cafe in Seongdong-gu on the 30th. Yonhap News In addition, the Democratic Party’s Kim Eun-kyung Innovation Committee faced the biggest challenge with the so-called’remarks disparaging the elderly’. Amid growing criticism from inside and outside the party, voices within the party demanding responsibility for Lee Jae-myeong’s leadership are also growing.
On the 2nd, Kim Ki-hyun, representative of People’s Power, criticized Chairman Kim’s remarks on Facebook to the effect that’the dawn proportional voting is reasonable’, saying, “It is an irredeemable brash and immoral party.” Representative Yoon Jae-ok also said, “The parade of insults demeaning the elderly continues day after day,” and Lee Jong-bae, a member of the People’s Power City Council, filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission that day, claiming that Chairman Kim “denigrated the elderly with anti-constitutional and immoral remarks.” .
The Korean Senior Citizens Association said in a statement that day, “We are astonished and angry at the remarks that disparage the elderly who ignored the right to vote guaranteed by the Constitution.” He urged the resignation of Chairman Kim and Lee Jae-myeong, the party leader. The National Council of Elders was established in 1991 by 33 people, including the former Speaker of the National Assembly, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Prime Minister, and religious leaders.
The Innovation Committee said that Chairman Kim mentioned one of several views, and is committed to dealing with it every day, but bitter voices followed from within the party. Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Jong-min wrote on Facebook that day, “It is an inexcusable 100 wrong remarks,” and “It is appropriate to apologize politely to the people who were hurt by the official press conference.” In a phone call with the Seoul Shinmun that same day, Choe Rak-do, chairman of the Democratic Party’s seniors committee, said, “It was a big mistake to make disparaging comments about the elderly ahead of the general election,” and said, “CEO Lee should directly apologize.”
As the controversy over the innovation committee’s mistake is repeated and criticism that the content of the innovation plan is poor grows, skepticism about the existence of the innovation committee itself is prevalent within the party. A first-time member of the Democratic Party said, “I think the Innovation Committee is useless. It looks like Chairman Kim is trying to do his own politics.”
As a result, the atmosphere leads to the responsibility theory of the leadership of Lee Jae-myeong, who led the launch of the innovation committee and delegated full authority to the innovation committee. It is said that the innovation committee, which was created to renew the party’s image, which has fallen due to the money envelope controversy, and to make up for the decline in approval ratings, is rather dampening the party’s morale. In a phone call, a member of the Democratic Party said, “The party leadership and lawmakers are largely responsible for failing to provide guidelines in advance, such as the goal and target of innovation.” should have been achieved,” he said.
Reporter Kim Ga-hyun
2023-08-02 11:16:09
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