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Democratic Party's leadership has decided not to allow Park Ji-hyeon, former chairman of the emergency response committee, to run at the August National Convention.
He judged that he did not meet the regulations that only allowed members of the right party to run for office after six months of joining the party, and neither did he fall under any exceptional circumstances.
Reporter Kang Min-woo covered the story.
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Democratic Party's Emergency Response Committee has decided not to refer the agenda of former Vice Chairman Park Ji-hyun's run for the August National Convention to the Party Affairs Committee.
According to the party rules of the Democratic Party, in order to have the right to be elected for a party or public office, you must be a member of the Rights Party who joined the party six months before the 1st of this month.
Therefore, in order to challenge the party authority, the non-captain and the party committee must acknowledge that former Chairman Park is subject to the exception clause, but the leadership concluded that they could not find an unavoidable reason to grant an exception.
[Woo Sang-ho / Democratic Party Emergency Response Chairperson: We decided not to propose an exception clause to the Party Affairs Committee for running for former Vice Chairman Park Ji-hyun as an agenda item and not ask for discussion.]
The 97th Democratic Party's Day Prediction system continues over Rep. Jae-myung Lee's challenge to the party there is.
Rep. Kang Byung-won appeared on the radio today (the 4th) and pointed out that there may be legal risks if Rep. Lee becomes the party leader, and Rep. Kang Hoon-sik sniped that Rep. Lee took a path that broke the basics after the election.
Rep. Park Yong-jin pressured Rep. Lee to talk about responsibility for the election and losing the branch.
The Democratic National Convention Preparatory Committee plans to finalize the rules for the August convention at today's meeting.