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Voting for party members to select the leader of the People's Power Party started today (7th).

As the competition for power draws closer to the last minute, the nerve war between the candidates is heating up more and more, and the words exchanged are getting tougher.



This is reporter Lee Hyun-young.



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On the first day of the election for the representative of the People's Power Party, the turnout of party members was counted at 25.8%.




It will be held for three more days with mobile and ARS, exceeding the final turnout of 25.4% at the time of the party representative election in February 2019 in one day.



The winner will be announced on Friday, and the battle between the candidates is getting close.



It started when Candidate Na Kyung-won raised suspicions that Candidate Jun-seok Lee was trying to exclude former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol from the presidential candidate group, saying that candidate Lee was a delusion.



When Candidate Na mentioned the qualifications of the party's representative, saying, "Is this a young politician?"



[Lee Jun-seok/People's Power Party Representative Candidate: That is, every time you are caught in the opponent's provocation in a confrontation between the opposition and the opposition. What a low-level politician trying to frame his juniors... .]



Candidates Na and Ho-Young Joo held back this candidate by stating political experience and stability.



[Na Kyung-won / People's Power Party Representative Candidate: Jirashi, delusion, I will set the price properly... Can a party leader



who speaks nonsense like this really

harmonize the party?]

[Ho-Young Joo/People’s Power Party Representative Candidate: Even among the people who support it, something is unsettling. .]



The emotional battle between the candidates is reaching a climax when the candidate Lee side requested an investigation requesting that "the list of party members was leaked from a specific candidate camp" in response to a text message slandering him being sent to a large number of party members.



The representative of the conservative group, who sent out a large number of the slanderers, said in a phone call with SBS reporter, "These are the contacts I've known while working in political groups for decades."



(Video coverage: Kim Heung-gi, video editing: Choi Jin-hwa)