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After Ahn Cheol-soo, the presidential candidate of the People's Party, said that he would withdraw the proposal to unify the opposition candidates, the aftermath continues.
People's Power Chairman Lee Jun-seok and the People's Party criticized each other by disclosing the details of the behind-the-scenes negotiations.
Correspondent Park Won-kyung.
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On the morning of the 23rd, Chairman Lee Jun-seok of People's Power said, "The People's Party should be careful about your words and actions in relation to the failure of the negotiations to unify the candidates.
[Lee Jun-seok/CEO of People's Power (MBC Radio): People's Party officials have made proposals to our officials, such as making President Ahn collapse regardless of the intention of Representative Ahn Cheol-soo.]
Then, General Manager Lee Tae-gyu of the People's Party In a rage, he demanded to reveal who the 'person' was.
He also revealed that Chairman Lee met with him earlier this month and offered to join the party on the premise that Ahn Cheol-soo, candidate of the People's Party, should resign.
[Lee Tae-gyu/People's Party member: (After the election) I made a special provision to guarantee the participation of the Supreme Committee, the Special Committee on the Chogang, and the Nomination Review Committee, I made this proposal.] In
exchange for joining the party, I gave Ahn the nomination for the by-election in Jongno, Seoul .
He added that he also said that he could.
[Lee Tae-gyu / National Assembly member: The part that the party leader himself wanted to have the hegemony of unification (I understood it as)]
Chairman Lee held a rebuttal press conference again and rebutted that he was saying that if candidate Ahn declared his support after resigning, he had to join the party, and in that case, he meant that he would treat the party as a party leader.
[Lee Jun-seok/People's Power Representative: In the case of Jongno, the party designated it as a strategic nomination site in the first place, so if there is such an intention (to Candidate Ahn), it can be reviewed, but I wonder why Representative Lee Tae-gyu made such a misunderstanding.
] As the goal of the party deepens, the possibility of unification of the opposition candidates seems to be getting lower.
(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, Kim Nam-seong, video editing: Won-yang)