Beijing, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- As South Korea's parliamentary election approaches, the Democratic Party of Korea, the largest opposition party, has been engaged in infighting over the issue of the party's primary election. Some members of parliament said that he had been ostracized by party leader Lee Jae-myung and that he might lose his nomination, and demanded that he resign as party leader. Lee Jae-myung denied the relevant claims on the 22nd and refused to resign.
According to South Korea**, a number of DPJ MPs revealed that the party made a list during the party's primary elections, listing 31 people as "poor performers in legislative activities." These people will have 20 to 30 percent of their votes withheld in party primaries.
Lee Jae-myung, leader of South Korea's largest opposition party, speaks as he was discharged from Seoul National University Hospital on January 10. Xinhua News Agency (photo taken by full holiday).
Park Yong-jin and Yoon Young-chan, members of the National Assembly, who were included in the list, said that the 31 members were basically regarded as members of the "non-mainstream" faction of the Democratic Party of Korea and did not belong to the Lee Jae-myung faction. They accused the Democratic Party of Korea of unfair primaries, saying that Lee Jae-myung used the move to favor his followers and exclude members of other factions, triggering a "nomination crisis" within the party.
Some members of the Democratic Party of Korea have said they will quit the party, while others have called for Mr. Lee to resign as party leader.
Lee Jae-myung denied the relevant claims on the 22nd, saying that the Democratic Party primary election was held in a fair manner. At the same time, he said that he would not resign because of this. "If the head of a political party resigns like this, then we have to change leaders 365 days a year. ”
South Korea is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections on April 10. According to the results of a poll released by the polling agency "Real Meter" on the 19th, the support rate of the ruling People's Power Party, to which Yoon Suk-yeol belongs, is 391%, and the Democratic Party of Korea has a 402%, which is a close mix of bipartisan support. (Zhang Jing).