Minister of Small and Medium Venture Business Park Young-sun (left) and former lawmaker Na Kyung-won. [뉴스1]
– A fierce nervous war is taking place among competitors for the Seoul Mayor’s by-election over the entertainment appearances of former Congressman Na Kyung-won and Minister of Small and Medium Venture Business Park Young-sun.
On the 5th, the former lawmaker appeared on TV Chosun’s’Taste of Entertainment’ and showed her daily life with her daughter Yuna, who suffers from Down syndrome. On the day of the broadcast, the entertainment rating ranked first.
Minister Park is scheduled to appear on the same program on the coming 12th broadcast. Some are questioning the date of this broadcast. The special regulations on election broadcasting deliberation stipulate that candidates must not appear in programs other than broadcasting and reporting/debate broadcasting according to the provisions of the Election Act from 90 days before the election to the election day.
According to this provision, there is no problem with the broadcast of former lawmaker Na who went out 93 days before the election, but the appearance of Minister Park, who was 86 days before the election, could violate the election law.
However, under the current law, candidates are banned from appearing in February because the by-election is deliberated from broadcasting 60 days before the election day. The two politicians’ broadcast appearances are not included in the subject of deliberation.
Even if it doesn’t go against the rules, there is a strong voice that it is necessary to refrain from doing so. Kim Jin-ae, a member of the Open Democratic Party, who declared a run for the mayor of Seoul on the 9th, said, “Are politicians appearing in entertainment before running for a run, whether they are not confident, whether they need laundry, whether they want to enjoy preferential treatment, or that they will make the mayor of Seoul a’wife’s taste.’ Is it?” he pointed out. Democratic Party Rep. Sang-ho Woo, who presented a vote for the Seoul Mayor’s election earlier, also said on the radio broadcast on the 8th that “TV Chosun invites specific Seoul Mayor candidates and opposition candidates in this way and uses them for a kind of election promotion, which undermines the publicity of the broadcast.”
Jeong Ho-jin, chief spokesman for the Justice Party, criticized on the 9th, “Politicians who are mentioned as strong candidates can be interpreted as a pre-election campaign as a biased broadcast.”
Civic groups that were not sensitive to the re-election of Seoul also helped. The Democratic Citizens Press Association said on the 6th, “There is a great concern that the entertainment program will fall into a publicity broadcast by a politician who is about to run for election.” “It is very inappropriate to recruit a strong politician to run for the Seoul Mayor by-election after only three months.” And pinched.
Reporter Lee Ga-young [email protected]
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