Spokesperson Kang In-seon and Rep. Jang Je-won applied ‘fair recruitment of unpaid campaigners’ to private recommendation for recruitment in the presidential office, but under the Election Act, there is a risk of violating the compensation for recruitment of election candidates for unpaid volunteers prior to official candidate registration under the Election Act.
Mr. Joo, who was in question, joined the election camp in the early days of the People's Power presidential primary last summer, and after working 'unpaid' until the presidential election on March 10 of this year, he joined the transition committee, and his position is undisclosed.
On the 19th, spokesperson Kang said, "Mr. Joo was the youngest member of the schedule team for over 8 months and did a great job. .
Spokesperson Kang continued, “We were conducting inquiries, and in the process, we confirmed that they had been introduced.”
Rep. Jang said, "Because they passed the primary and did a good job, they entered the senior leadership team and survived the transition committee, so they entered the 8th and 9th grades." Reverse discrimination against those who ran," he expressed as 'special recruitment of public officials for privately recommended election volunteers'.
Spokesperson Kang said, "There has never been a case of indiscriminate attack by any government called 'private hiring' against young working-level officials who worked silently during the election," Kang said.
Article 47-2 of the Public Official Election Act (Prohibition of Acceptance of Money and Valuables Related to Candidate Recommendation by Political Parties) stipulates that 'Anyone who offers money, valuables or other property benefits, or a public office, or expresses an intention to provide such money or valuables, in connection with the recommendation of a specific person as a candidate by a political party or promise to provide it, accept the offer, or accept the expression of intention to provide it.”
Mr. Joo in question is the son of a Gwangju mayor candidate who played an important role in President Yoon's presidential election process, and the candidate is a former investigator of the Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office.
Kwon Seong-dong, acting representative of People's Power, said about the case of Mr. Woo in Gangneung, "I recommended it. He pressured Rep. Jang Je-won to put him in the presidential office. Still, I thought it would put me in the 7th grade, but it was the 9th grade.” He said, “I get paid a little more than the minimum wage. Get another $10k. i'm sorry How can I live in Seoul with the minimum wage, Gangneung villager,” he said on SNS on the 15th.
In the case, it became known that the son of Mr. Woo Woo, a representative of a telecommunication equipment company in Gangneung, who had been a close friend of President Yoon for 40 years, was working as an administrative agent in the Presidential Office's Senior Social Affairs Office.
Representative Kwon told the National Assembly reporters on the 17th, "I knew that the father of 9th grade administrative agent Woo Mo was a member of the Election Commission in Gangneung. He and his son are separate."
Kwon is a longtime friend of President Yoon and has been a leader since the early days of the presidential election within the party.
On the 20th, President Kang Seung-gyu, senior citizen for civil society, said, "When a candidate has to go through the preliminary round and the final, it is not easy for candidates to find participants at first in this process. It is operated as a volunteer for a period of time, but it is not easy to find such an agent who works as an unpaid volunteer from the beginning. No," he told MBC.