People's Power Representative Lee Jun-seok was rushed into the political corner.
While the electoral committee has set a strong call for 'complete dismantling' to revamp the presidential campaign, even the theory of CEO Lee's responsibility has been raised, leading to rumors of the resignation of the party leader.
Candidate Yoon's approval ratings plummeted after two months, who made his splendid presidential debut with the flag of regime change in November last year.
The reason for this is the logic that even the representative Lee, who was at the center of the former captain's red line, cannot avoid responsibility.
Today (4th), 11 members including Rep. Song Seok-joon submitted a request for the convening of a general meeting of members of the House of Representatives.
The reason for the convening was 'discussing ways to reform the party and seeking a strategy to win the presidential election', but it was predicted that it would not actually become a 'Lee Jun-seok pilgrimage contest'.
Although floor leader Kim Ki-hyeon, who expressed his intention to resign yesterday, finally decided not to hold a parliamentary meeting, it is said that the dissatisfaction of the people's power lawmakers toward Lee has reached a threshold.
At the National Assembly yesterday, a member of the National Assembly close to Candidate Yoon opposes Lee's return to the election and said, 'If there is anyone who guarantees that President Lee will not leave the election again, please come out.'
In particular, Chairman Lee told reporters, "We may appoint candidate Ahn Cheol-soo of the People's Party (to the Supreme Council), assuming that the leadership of the party friendly to Yun, such as Cho Su-jin and Kim Jae-won, resigns and the supreme leadership is neutralized." As the remarks were delivered, it is said that the atmosphere of the Speaker of the House became even worse.
Following some opinions of Lee's resignation at the National Assembly yesterday, some members of the party also argue today that Ilil should turn the board to demand the resignation of the representative.
The resignation of floor leaders, including floor leader Kim Ki-hyeon and policy committee chairman Kim Do-eup, also seems to put pressure on Lee's future as a result.
Since two in-house leadership among the nine members of the 'Lee Jun-seok leadership' resigned, according to the party constitution, if only three more elected top members resigned, the leadership itself could be incapacitated due to lack of a quorum.
To this, Chairman Lee responded by referring to Sohn Hak-gyu's 'survival operation' at the time of the former Bareunmirae Party incident and saying, "I will prepare a replacement member immediately."
However, even in this case, there is a political burden of having to hold a standing national committee to nominate the Supreme Council member.
CEO Lee also said, “My future has not changed.”
A party official said on the phone, "Even if one or two elected top members resign, Lee Jun-seok's leadership will already become a plant leadership."
Demands from inside and outside the party to resign are also strong.
Kim Min-jeon, a professor at Kyunghee University, who resigned as the co-election chairperson yesterday due to the dissolution of the election committee, hit the CEO directly by referring to the alleged sexual abuse of CEO Lee raised by the Garosero Research Institute (Ka Se-yeon), a YouTube channel, on Facebook.
Professor Kim said, "It is only a suspicion at the present stage, but it is also true that it is easy for the public to criticize that the representative who is suspected of sexual harassment is responsible for the party during the election period," said Professor Kim. Wouldn't that be beautiful politics?"
However, there are concerns that if President Lee Seok-yeol Yoon is completely excluded from the presidential campaign, he will not be able to ignore the 2030 vote divergence.
Rep. Hong Jun-pyo, who competed with Candidate Yoon in the primary, said in a phone call, "In the past, it was a local vote, but now it is a generational vote. Representative Lee has the symbol of 2030, the casting boat, and if he is removed from the election, the presidential election must be abandoned." said.
In the end, it is pointed out that CEO Lee's return to the election depends on the decision of presidential candidate Yoon Seok-yeol.
Candidate Yoon completely canceled the public schedule for two days in a row today and began deliberation over plans to reorganize the election, including whether or not CEO Lee will return to the previous position.
General Election Commissioner Kim Jong-in met with reporters in front of the Gwanghwamun office today and said, "I don't know yet about Lee's (electoral) role."
Some say that even if candidate Yoon and CEO Lee do not make a sudden reconciliation, it is possible to suture the election campaign while maintaining a certain distance.
One lawmaker said in a phone call, "There is no legal way to resign Lee. The basis for establishing an emergency response committee is also weak in the party constitutional rules.
(Photo = National Assembly Photo Reporters, Yonhap News)