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The Democratic Party has withdrawn its decision to exclude former Seoul mayor candidate Song Young-gil and Rep. Park Ju-min.

We have decided to recruit additional candidates by today (22nd) and select the final candidate through a 100% public participation contest.



Reporter Han Se-hyun is the reporter.



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The Democratic Party held an emergency response committee again yesterday and decided that former CEO Song Young-gil and Rep. Park Ju-min would participate in the Seoul mayoral race.



It has been two days since the Party's Strategic Nomination Management Committee made a decision to 'exclude nominations' for the two people.



It is understood that the parties, as well as the party leadership and some supporters, protested and showed signs of spreading factional conflicts, so it is interpreted that they rushed to evolve.



[Ko Yong-jin / Senior Spokesperson for the Democratic Party: There were criticisms about factional remarks, etc., but we decided that it would be more competitive to expand the candidate group a little more (primary election)...

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The Democratic Party has decided to recruit additional candidates until today and conduct a primary election through a public opinion poll on Seoul citizens after one cut-off.



Currently, six people, including former Representative Song and Rep. Park, have applied for the mayor of Seoul.



Former CEO Song, who objected to the exclusion of the nomination as "an act of self-harm," expressed his welcome.



[Song Young-gil/Former Democratic Party Representative (Yesterday, SBS Joo Young-jin's news briefing): I thank the non-commissioned members for making the right decision, and the party members who worried with me, and those who opposed and criticized me.

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Rep. Park also posted on social media a picture of her haircut and the words "Now we start".



The conflict entered a closing phase, but the aftershock continued, with the claim that the party's standing adviser Lee Jae-myung asked non-commissioned members to support Song's support immediately after the decision to exclude the nomination and the rebuttal that it was groundless.