Lee Jae-myeong ‘recommends a new candidate’, violating political party law ‘participation in forming public opinion’
Lee Jae-myeong, leader of the Democratic Party, went from 'recommending a new candidate in a system' and 'encouraging freedom to withdraw from the party' to candidates who were eliminated from the party's constitution, to 'participation in forming the public opinion by recommending a candidate' and 'city/provincial party approval procedures' for 'joining' and 'withdrawing' from the party under the Political Party Act. ' was violated.
The Democratic Party of Korea's constitution does not contain any provisions for 'recommendation of new people', and it forcibly regulates 'party democracy and separation of three political parties'.
Representative Lee officially confirmed the separation of ‘party rules’ and ‘system’ on the 28th of last month, showing ‘violation of party constitution and rules’ by the system.
Representative Lee’s exercise of authority based on nomination criteria to ‘give opportunities to new people’ violates ‘participation in forming the public opinion’, which is a provision of the right to recommend candidates under the Political Parties Act.
Representative Lee said, “During this nomination process, many voices are raised. However, we must change to enter a new era. “We need to give new people a chance,” he announced on the 28th of last month.
Representative Lee continued, “I think there are one or two people who have left the party recently, but they are free to join and leave the party. However, it would not be good in the eyes of the people to not play because it looks like they will lose if they play,” violating the provisions of the ‘Party Membership Procedure under the Political Parties Act.’
The Political Party Act’s ‘participation in shaping the political will of the people’ is based on ‘voting’, which is the political will of the people, and the standard of ‘recommendation of a new person’ by a party representative before voting is equivalent to ‘interfering with the expression of political will through voting’.
The Political Party Act defines 'political party' as <refers to a voluntary organization of the people whose purpose is to participate in the formation of the people's political opinion by recommending or supporting candidates for public elections>, and defines 'candidate recommendation' as 'participation in the formation of the people's opinion.' ' and distinguished it from 'arbitrary exercise of the right to recommend.'
In the Political Party Act, 'joining a party' is defined as <when an application for membership is submitted to a city/provincial party or its party founding preparation committee and an application for membership is received, the party membership qualification review body decides whether to join the party or not and registers it in the party member list>, forcing the procedure. It is subject to action.
According to the Political Party Act, ‘withdrawal from the party’, like ‘joining the party’, is ‘priority respect for the city/provincial party, which is the root of the political party’, through the process of submitting ‘a notice of withdrawal to the city/provincial party’, and Representative Lee, as the representative of the Central Party, destroyed this.
Representative Lee said on the day that the nomination rejection was raised, “The system is all in place. “There is a party rule created a year ago, there is an evaluation according to the system, and good candidates are being selected as a result of a transparent review,” he said, referring to the “transparent review,” but did not disclose the minutes of the meeting, including the “vote” mandated by the party constitution.
The Democratic Party Constitution stipulates in Article 2 Purpose in Clause ④ that <The Democratic Party of Korea implements party democracy through separation of political parties into three powers and decentralization of power between the central party and city/provincial parties.>
The party constitution stipulates that <Article 2 (Purpose) of the Democratic Party is to create a fair and equal society, a society that values the value of life and guarantees safety, an inclusive society that pursues universal welfare, and a society where all regions prosper evenly through innovation and growth. We aim to become a country that pursues peace in East Asia and the world beyond peace on the Korean Peninsula.>
The party constitution states in its preamble, “We will create ‘a country where my life is happy’ with ‘fairness, life, inclusion, prosperity, and peace’ as our core values. First, it completely conflicts with ‘recommending new people’ as it aims to “realize a fair and equal society where everyone has opportunities and can demonstrate their capabilities without privilege, discrimination, or inequality.”