<Anchor> As a
result of the Democratic Party's former party member vote, which asked if it was allowed to submit a candidate for the Seoul Mayor and Busan mayor's by-election, 26% of the rights party voted, and 87% of them agreed.
Based on this result, the Democratic Party decided to promote the nomination, but criticism was poured out from the opposition party, and former lawmaker Yoo In-tae, an elder from the Democratic Party, wrote that it had no justification.
This is reporter Yun Nara.
<Reporter> The
Democratic Party finally revised its constitution and decided to nominate a candidate for the by-election of the mayors of Seoul and Busan next April.
As a result of the former party member's vote, the reason is that over 80% of the vote was overwhelming.
[In-ho Choi/Deputy Democratic Party Chief Spokesperson: This is my full support for the decision of Nak-yeon Lee and the leadership that nominating candidates and receiving citizens' choices is more in line with the politics of responsibility.]
Among the 83,000 Democratic Rights Party members, participation in the voting 211,000 people.
The voter voted 26.35% and the approval rate was 86.64%, so the number of rights party members who voted in favor was about a quarter of the total.
Although some argued that it was not meeting the effective turnout, the Democratic Party refuted that there was no problem as it was a procedure for securing political legitimacy, not a resolution to amend the party constitution.
After expressing gratitude to the party members for understanding the inevitable decision, CEO Lee Nak-yeon repeatedly apologized to the citizens of Seoul and Busan, as well as the victims of the alleged sexual harassment case, Park Won-soon and Mayor Oh Geo-don.
[Lee Nak-yeon/Deocratic Democratic Party Representative: We will find the most moral and competent candidates and set them up in front of the voters.]
However, a political elder from the Democratic Party did not spare the voice of writing that he was greedy to forsake the cause.
[Yoo In-tae/Former Democratic Party Member (SBS News Briefing Interview): (Dangheon) Now, I think it is not justifiable to flip the palm like that.]
The power of the people was in 2015, Moon Jae-in at the time of the New Political Democratic Union. The representative spoke to the old Saenuri Party, "You shouldn't be nominated" at the conference hall.
[Kim Jong-in/People's Strength Emergency Response Committee Chairman: Probably not everyone will be convinced.
Isn't the Democratic Party a political party that has lost its honesty right now?] The
Justice Party criticized that he voted, but the answer had already been decided.
[Jang Hye-young / Justice Party Speaker: It is the cowardly method of disabling the no-nomination party constitution by voting for all members of the party.] The
so-called'no nomination' principle introduced by the Democratic Party for political innovation was virtually abolished after five years with this decision.
(Video coverage: Kim Hyeon-sang and Ha-Ryung, video editing: Lee So-young)