Lee Jae-myeong, a forced secret evaluation evaluator, ‘excluded from evaluation’ violated the Constitution’s ‘democracy in political party organizational activities’
Lee Jae-myeong, leader of the Democratic Party, violated the ‘national treasury support when guaranteeing democracy in organizational activities’ in the ‘political party’ clause of Article 8 of the Constitution by excluding the source of prior evaluation by evaluators in the ‘forced obedience to selection scores’ measure based on secret evaluation scores.
Representative Lee said on the 22nd at a briefing on the selection of candidates for the National Assembly, “Someone of you has no choice but to take first place and someone last,” and on the 23rd, “We have no choice but to select one player through the process.” “I ask you to understand and accept that it is inevitable,” he said, revealing that the forced selection of nominations was in violation of Article 8 of the Constitution’s mandatory regulation of “political parties are organized activities and democratic parties.”
Representative Lee disguised the violation of ‘organizational activity democracy’ as a natural political right by disclosing the judges in the nomination screening of National Assembly candidates and disclosing the results of the screening, then disclosing the ‘ranking’ only based on the results.
Party democracy enforces the guarantee of democracy in organizational activities by law and supports the people's free participation in political parties through a 'financial support' system from the national treasury.
Representative Lee's selection of candidates for the National Assembly is led by the Central Party, and is a typical process of eliminating lower-ranking candidates through ranking based on the 'equal value and overlapping weight' scoring method based on evaluations of 'party contribution', 'evaluation of fellow lawmakers', and 'evaluation of Rights Party members and the public'. 'Active democracy' was excluded through the 'dictatorship of the party leader', who has the authority to appoint 'examiners'.
The 'organizational democracy' of political parties is possible only when evaluators and evaluation subjects are granted equal rights and obligations, evaluators disclose standards and application information in public activities, and evaluators are subject to evaluation and are selected beyond the political party and the evaluation subjects, even outside the political party. must also be evaluated to qualify as democratic activity.
Representative Lee’s ‘forced obedience to the ranking of nomination screening and evaluation’ is confirmed by political party democracy as the deliberate deletion of the priority procedure of ‘fair public evaluation of evaluators’ and refusal of retrial.
On the 22nd, the Democratic Party's Nomination Management Committee did not hold a meeting for Reps. Park Yong-jin and Kim Han-jeong, who were dissatisfied with the evaluation results, but dismissed the application for retrial, saying, "After going through the review process to see if there were obvious defects, we decided that there was no reason."
Among the regulations for secret evaluations of members of the National Assembly in political parties, the 'evaluation of fellow members' is disguised as a 'multi-faceted evaluation' among the evaluations of active members (total 1,000 points), but in reality, it is evaluated only after fellow lawmakers and party officials are directly influenced by the party's power. This is an item for submitting evaluation scores, and the party representative can intervene.
Representative Kim Seong-hwan, secretary of the Democratic Party's Talent Committee, said in an interview on the 22nd, "If you look back, the evaluation could have been made in the second half of last year. Coincidentally, I think that period was around the time when party members approved or rejected the motion to arrest Representative Lee." The relationship was directly mentioned.
In a briefing on the 22nd, Representative Lee responded to the backlash against 'notification of the bottom 20%' by saying, "From the evaluator's point of view, it is inevitable that scores must be assigned and rankings must be determined," adding, "There are judges' opinions, but the evaluation of fellow members is also important, and almost 0 points were given. “It is said that some people were hit,” he said.
While receiving government subsidies, the Democratic Party has never disclosed the list of evaluators for the scoring system, and this time as well, it completely excluded them from the democratic verification process and organization.
Article 8 of the Constitution states: <②Political parties must be democratic in their purpose, organization, and activities, and must have the necessary organization to participate in the formation of the political will of the people> <③Political parties shall be protected by the state as prescribed by law, and the state shall Following the provision that "funds necessary for the operation of political parties may be subsidized as prescribed by law," <④If the purpose or activities of a political party violate the basic democratic order, the government may file a complaint to the Constitutional Court for its dissolution, and the political party may It is dissolved by the decision of the Constitutional Court.”
Representative Lee nominated himself and three lawyers Jeong Jin-sang in a separate organization of the 'National Innovation Committee for Democracy' and packaged the lawyers as 'climate experts' and granted them the right to contest nominations, while "2023 special party regulations." “It is a system nomination by ,” he told reporters.