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Kwon Seong-dong, a member of the People's Power, who is considered to be a key close aide to Yoon Seok-yeol, announced that he would run for the party's floor leader election.

The Democratic Party held a general assembly of lawmakers and criticized the recent search and seizure by investigative authorities as outright political retaliation.



Other political news was compiled by reporter Eom Min-jae.



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Kwon Seong-dong, a four-term lawmaker who is considered to be the closest person to President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol.



He said he would like to become the representative of the floor, but at the same time emphasized a smooth party-government relationship.



[Kwon Seong-dong/People's Power Rep.: I will make sure that the president and the party do not deviate from the level of the people with a platform where I can say what I have to say, and there will be no unnecessary misunderstandings and frictions between the party governments based on human trust.



] A third-term lawmaker, Jo Hae-jin, said, "The party should not become the Blue House's Yeouido branch."



Rep. Kim Tae-heum, who was highly likely to run again after finishing second in last year's election for the floor, announced that he would accept the party's leadership's request and withdraw his candidacy for the floor.



It is known that President-elect Yoon directly persuaded him to run for the Chungnam governorship, and there was also an interpretation that it was a kind of traffic arrangement for Rep. Kwon, who is called 'Yun Hak-kwan'.



The Democratic Party criticized him for maintaining political neutrality as the president-elect, saying, "It is no different than the downfall of Rep. Kim's nomination for Chungnam governor."



The general assembly protested that blatant retaliation had begun against the police and prosecutors' seizures of the Gyeonggi Provincial Office and the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, respectively.



[Yun Ho-jung / Democratic Party Emergency Response Committee Chairman: There was no such president-elect who started with the situation before taking office.

I am worried about what kind of tyranny of public security will be carried out in the next five years...

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The Democratic Party plans to hold a general assembly of members again next week to decide the party's views on prosecutorial reform and media reform bills.



(Video coverage: Cho Chun-dong, video editing: Kim Jin-won)