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rule that the Democratic Party will change this time is the content that the Democratic Party made by itself five years ago, calling for political reform.

In fact, in the election of the city council, I kept that promise, but when a big election such as the mayor of Seoul and the mayor of Busan approached, my mind changed.



This is reporter Yun Nara.



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[Kim Sang-gon/At the time, Chairman of the Innovation Committee for the New Political Democracy Association (June 2015): If an elected public official loses his position due to a serious error due to corruption, etc., and the candidate is re-elected, no candidate will be recommended to the relevant constituency.]



In June 2015, this is a party innovation proposal ambitiously introduced by the New Political Democratic Alliance, the predecessor of the Democratic Party.



This is also engraved on the Party Constitution.



Two months later, then party leader Moon Jae-in criticized this when the former Saenuri Party member Goseong County, Gyeongsang Province, violated the election law and re-election was held.



[Moon Jae-in/At the time, President of the New Political Democracy Association (August 2015): The party responsible for the re-election did not make any candidates, so it proposed such a bill.

So, won't our politics be able to improve?] The



following year, when a member of the Seoul Metropolitan Government was sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder request, the Democratic Party did not actually make a candidate for the by-election of the constituency.



The Democratic Party, which didn't vote for the city council elections, is flipping its promise of political innovation five years ago in front of the big elections of Seoul and Busan mayors.



Whether he was conscious of this criticism, Lee Nak-yeon also expressed his apology to the citizens of Seoul and Busan and the victims.



Some members of the Democratic Party who have argued for no nomination are in an atmosphere of retreating, saying they will follow the results of the former party member vote.



Internal criticism is being buried in the reality that it is impossible not to vote for a big election a year before the presidential election.



The Central Election Commission estimates that a budget of 57 billion won will be invested in the Mayor of Seoul and 26.7 billion won in Busan.



(Video coverage: Lee Seung-hwan, video editing: Kim Jong-mi)