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Kim Jong-in “Debate with Yoon Seok-yeol and Lee Jae-myung is not ‘unconditional rejection'”

People’s Power Presidential Candidate Seok-Yeol Yoon and General Election Task Force Chairman Kim Jong-in are having a conversation at a meeting of the National Election Commission held at the National Assembly on the 27th. News 1

The People’s Power General Election Task Force Chairman Kim Jong-in said, “It can be done if the topic is clearly defined and it is worth discussing,” he said.

After the National Election Committee meeting at the National Assembly on the 30th, Kim said, “Are the two candidates going to have a policy discussion with Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung?” said this He also pointed out, “I think this candidate may have the confidence to speak well, but I don’t know what the basic topic of discussion is.”

Candidate Yoon, who is showing a passive reaction to Candidate Lee’s proposal for debate, has repeatedly expressed his negative stance on debates other than the three court debates. In Andong, North Gyeongsang Province the day before, he refused, even with harsh expressions, saying, “This candidate is a definitive criminal, should I have a discussion with this kind of person in the public eye? It’s really the same.”

In and out of the political arena, there are strong criticisms of the attitude of violating and ignoring the voters’ right to know and the right to choose candidates ahead of the election to elect the national leader. In an interview with the Hankook Ilbo the day before, Chairman Lee Jun-seok also said, “It is our perception that ‘(Lee Jae-myung) is a criminal’. Criminal or whatever, if the opposition party members and a significant number of people recognize him as a presidential candidate and support him as much as our candidate, Yoon “The candidate is ignoring the supporters of this candidate just by saying that,” he pointed out. It is said that Candidate Yoon’s remarks are rather a factor that makes the middle-class mind leave. Chairman Kim’s remark, “It doesn’t seem like an unconditional rejection,” seems to be conscious of this criticism.

Kim Jong-in, chairman of the People’s Power General Election Commission, speaks at the ‘Moon Jae-in Government Illegal Inspection Reporting Center Signboard Ceremony’ held at the People’s Power Company in Yeouido, Seoul on the 30th. news

Kim Jong-in “It’s not just the anti-Moon Jae-in strategy”

In response to CEO Lee’s criticism in an interview with the Hankook Ilbo, “We cannot even find a ‘scoring strategy’ based only on the ‘anti-Moon Jae-in sentiment’ in the People’s Power Advancement Committee,” Chairman Kim countered, saying, “There is not only an anti-Moon-jae-in strategy.” . He continued, “The direction of the election campaign itself is ‘Ignore Moon Jae-in and let’s go.’ It is meaningless to talk about problems with the already over government,” he said. was ambiguous

Chairman Kim said he would meet with Lee on the 31st to hear opinions on the reorganization of the election committee. It means mediating the long-standing conflict between Candidate Yoon and CEO Lee. Chairman Kim said, “I don’t know what CEO Lee really means,” he said. “I’m going to ask CEO Lee to talk about what he’s going to do with his predecessor,” he predicted.

Kim Ji-hyun reporter

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