Leadership Race Turns Into Team-Based Battle: "Only Vote for Our Supreme Council Candidates"

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As the party convention to elect the leadership of the Democratic Party approaches, factional confrontation is increasingly heating up. Candidates are appealing not only for the party leader position but also urging supporters to vote exclusively for their own camp while defeating all opponents.

Reporter Go Jeong-hyeon delivers the latest political news.

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At a meeting with Democratic Party members held in Ulsan on the morning of July 26.

Three pro-Chung-rae Supreme Council candidates, who call themselves Team Chung-rae, gathered together once again.

Among supporters of candidate Chung-rae, a so-called birth-month voting tactic is spreading, where votes are concentrated on two pro-Chung-rae Supreme Council candidates based on the members' birth months.

Today, candidate Chung-rae sharpened his attacks by pointing out the past party defection history of pro-Myung candidate Kim Min-seok.

[Jung Cheong-rae/Democratic Party Leadership Candidate: I am certain that I, Jung Cheong-rae, will be the ultimate protector of President Lee Jae-myung, who has never once betrayed the party and has never once left the party.]

Around the same time, at a policy meeting for party leadership candidate Kim Min-seok held in Gwangju, four pro-Myung Supreme Council candidates shared the stage with candidate Kim.

Candidate Kim directly targeted pro-Chung-rae candidates today by calling them anti-Myung, urging supporters to vote down everyone who only pays lip service to being pro-Myung while actually acting anti-Myung.

[Kim Min-seok/Democratic Party Leadership Candidate: I affirm that you will 100% elect a five-member leadership exclusively composed of pro-Myung figures who can resolutely criticize those who are anti-Myung.]

Candidate Song Young-gil, who is focusing on gathering party sentiment in the Honam region, met with young party members in the North Jeolla region and asked them what the party-presidency relationship was like during the tenure of leader Jung Cheong-rae, stating the following.

[Song Young-gil/Democratic Party Leadership Candidate: It is hard to agree with the specific criticisms made by figures like writer Yu Si-min. What do you think?]

Appearing to target candidate Chung-rae, candidate Song wrote on social media that the party cannot be entrusted to forces that shake the president, who is the pillar of the party.

(Photo: Oh Young-chun, Kim Young-hui from KBC | Video Editing: Lee Seung-jin)
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