Even on the first day of the
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holiday, the political battle over the 'Daejang-dong development' continued. Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung, who was under attack, counterattacked, saying this was a 'People's Power Gate', and the People's Power insisted on introducing a special prosecutor.
Reporter Kim Hyung-rae reports.
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Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung visited Gwangju ahead of the Democratic Party's Honam primary. The 'Daejang-dong development suspicion' raised his voice as a 'People's Power Gate'.
Amid the growing controversy over the fact that Hwacheon Daiyu and its subsidiaries, which participated in the development, received a dividend of more than 400 billion won, "I looked at the list of shareholders released through the media, and more than half of the shareholders were with the former Saenuri Party lawmaker who insisted on private development. There is a connection," the governor insists.
[Lee Jae-myung/Governor of Gyeonggi-do: I think that this is the negative connection between the civil power and the people's power, and that the people's power gate was hidden in the ground and survived to reveal it again with a new face.]
Former Democratic Party leader Lee Nak-yeon He emphasized a 'safe candidate' with the strengthening of the opposition's offensive.
[Lee Nak-yeon / Former Democratic Party Representative: (President) I started looking for candidates who should be, not candidates. The public seems to be moving toward a flawless candidate, a candidate with scalability, and a candidate with a future vision.]
The people's power was furious at this governor's counterattack.
Rep. Hong Jun-pyo, on SNS, insisted on the special prosecutor's investigation, saying, "People are astonished how a small improvised company called Hwacheon Daeyu developed Seongnam City on its back and Bong Kim Seon-dal-sik."
Yoo Seung-min's camp denounced the governor as "the politics of water ghosts against the enemy."
Kim Ki-hyeon, floor leader, said the day before (16th), "The head of the Seongnam Urban Development Corporation's planning division, who planned the development of Daejang-dong, said that he was currently active at the Lee Jae-myung camp."
The governor's camp said it would review the accusation saying it was fake news, but floor leader Kim responded, "I will be happy to be accused" and "Stop pretending to be just and come out as a witness in the state audit."
(Video coverage: Kim Seung-tae, video editing: Park Soo-seon)