DP's Lee Un-ju Criticizes Exclusion from Standing Committee Chairmanship: "Is This Political Retaliation?"

Representative Lee Un-ju of the Democratic Party of Korea criticized the party's floor leadership, asking, "Is this political retaliation?" after being excluded from a standing committee chairmanship for the second half of the 22nd National Assembly.
In a post on her Facebook page on July 3, Lee stated, "The floor leadership said they would consult with me (regarding the standing committee chairmanship issue), but there was no proper consultation, and they did not provide an answer when I asked what the criteria were."
Lee argued, "Even a local club meeting would face an uproar if positions were divided without rational criteria," adding, "As a position equivalent to a cabinet minister, the standing committee chairmanship should be distributed responsibly based on thorough public criteria so that it is not embarrassing to the public."
She continued, "As an investment lawyer and someone from the industrial sector, I served as the head of the economic growth committee directly under the presidential candidate during the election, and I served as the senior vice-chair of the party's AI Power Committee," adding, "That is why I understood that I would be given one of the chairmanships in the economic and industrial fields."
However, Lee emphasized, "(After the announcement of the standing committee chair assignments), I felt that they had finished 'dividing the spoils' of the standing committee chairmanships while excluding me, who has never served as a chair," and asked, "Where else in this day and age is there such an irrational organization?"
Lee wrote, "That said, I will not leave the party again," adding, "I returned (to the Democratic Party) with the determination to change the party, so if you want to kick me out, go ahead and do it."
Lee, who left the party in 2017, rejoined ahead of the 2024 general election.
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