Lee Jun-seok: “It is true that Mrs. Kim interfered in the announcement of local elections.

“Kim Jin-tae pledges loyalty to get primary election chance”
Governor Kim’s side: “It’s baseless, it’s like a novel.”

There is a trend after it was learned that New Reform Party lawmaker Lee Jun-seok said, “It is true that First Lady Kim Kun-hee intervened through the ​nomination process for local elections in June 2022. Representative Lee was a People Power Party representative at the time. In the People’s Power Party’s decision-making process for the Gangwon Province gubernatorial candidate, “Gangwon Province Governor Kim Jin-tae, who was cut off (without nomination), swore an ‘oath of loyalty’ to Ms. Kim and was given over. the opportunity to compete. Suspicions were also raised that Myung Tae-gyun, a key figure involved in the suspected interference in Ms Kim’s nomination, had a role. In response, an official close to Governor Kim said, “It’s a story that is completely baseless and almost like a novel. “

In a phone call with the Dong-A Ilbo on the 25th, representative Lee said, “There were things that were suspicious about Ms. Kim’s involvement in the nomination,” and “The party leader made a reasonable statement to the chairman local organization. official election committee, saying, ‘I don’t think this is right,’ but the chairman of the official committee didn’t listen. “If not, we can only assume that there is an external force,” he said. At the time, the chairman of the local election committee was Jeong Jin-seok, the president’s chief of staff. However, representative Lee said, “The statement ‘It is true that Kim Kun-hee intervened’ came out through a natural conversation process,” and added, “It is an area of ​​speculation.”

Representative Lee said that Governor Kim was first cut off and then reversed as a suspicious example. Representative Lee said, “This is what Mr. Myung said,” and “Mr. Myung told Governor Kim where Mrs. Kim was going, and Governor Kim visited Mrs. Kim and promised loyalty.” After the cutoff decision was overturned, Governor Kim became the People’s Power Party’s candidate for Governor of Gangwon Province during the primary, and won against a candidate the Lee Kwang-jae Democratic Party in the local elections.

Regarding that suspicion, People Power Party lawmaker Yoon Sang-hyun said, “It’s 100% lies. “It’s an absurd story,” he said. Representative Yoon was the chairman of the diplomatic committee for the re-election of the National Assembly and by-elections held at the same time as the 2022 local elections. .An official from Governor Kim also declined, saying, “The whole world knows that he was nominated through a hunger strike and a primary election at the time.”