Kim Min-seok Emphasizes 'Wallless One Team'... Jung Chung-rae Urges 'No Leaving Party'

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Newly elected Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok emphasized a "wallless one team" regarding party-presidential office relations today (18th). Meanwhile, former leader Jung Chung-rae, who failed in his bid for consecutive terms, urged his supporters not to leave the party and pleaded with them to protect him.

Reporter Kim Kwan-jin has the details.

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Newly elected Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok hugs Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik of the presidential office, who visited the National Assembly to offer congratulations.

[Kim Min-seok / Democratic Party Leader: I have come to feel a sense of expectation and responsibility that the completion of and communication as a wallless one team will be achieved.]

President Lee Jae-myung delivered this message to the Democratic Party during a cabinet meeting today.

[President Lee Jae-myung: Even if they are opponents who engaged in fierce competition with each other, their responsibility as partners bearing a joint responsibility for the people and the country is no different.]

In leader Kim's first party appointment, it drew attention that lawmaker Han Jeong-ae, who served as the policy committee chair under the preceding Jung Chung-rae leadership, was appointed as secretary-general in charge of overall party affairs.

Defeated former leader Jung Chung-rae stated, "Kim Min-seok won, but his arguments lost, and Jung Chung-rae lost, but the supporters won," making this appeal to his supporters.

[Jung Chung-rae / Former Democratic Party Leader: You must not leave the party. The owners of the party are you, the party members. Please stay until the end and protect me.]

Pro-presidential Supreme Council Member Choi Min-hee claimed that it was an "unfair party convention."

[Choi Min-hee / Democratic Party Senior Supreme Council Member (KBS Radio 'Jeong-guk Sisa'): I also think that the management of this party convention will remain as a dark history for the Democratic Party. Party members are furious about the unfairness.]

How will the party's supreme council be formed under "Team Kim Min-seok," which holds a two-year term and even holds the nomination authority for the 2028 general election?

Led by leader Kim Min-seok and floor leader Han Byung-do, the total of 9 members consists of 3 pro-presidential and 2 pro-Lee Jae-myung elected supreme council members, along with 2 supreme council members appointed by leader Kim, giving figures close to leader Kim a majority.

Leader Kim previously expressed his intention to entrust one of the appointed supreme council positions to the younger generation.

Tomorrow, the Democratic Party will hold the new leadership's first supreme council meeting, and leader Kim, along with former leadership competitors Jung Chung-rae and Song Young-gil, will have dinner at the presidential office upon the invitation of President Lee Jae-myung.

(Photo: Yonhap News / Video Reporting: Oh Young-chun, Kim Yong-woo | Video Editing: Park Sun-soo, Design: Park Tae-young)
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