Violation of the law of political parties by abusing ‘marked disparity’ through secret investigation into Lee Jae-myeong’s singular recommendation
Lee Jae-myeong, leader of the Democratic Party, violated the ‘open’ regulations on the selection of candidates for public officials under the Political Party Act through party regulations that sealed ‘significant gaps’ through secret opinion polls when recommending a single candidate.
In Article 28 (Disclosure of Platform, etc. and Information in Party Constitution), the Political Party Act stipulates mandatory “disclosure” in Article 2 of Article 8 of Article ② based on the ‘obligation to disclose party constitution’.
In the Democratic Party, preliminary candidate Kwon Hyang-yeop (Sunchon, Jeollanam-do, etc.), who received a strategic nomination as a woman, requested the party to withdraw the strategic nomination on the 5th, and the Supreme Committee changed this to a ‘switch to primary’ meeting in the afternoon.
The Democratic Party previously decided to make a single strategic nomination for former Secretary Kwon at a closed-door meeting at the highest level late at night on the 1st.
The nomination review of the Democratic Party's party rules is specified as 'recognition of significant differences in competitiveness' in Article 33 (5) of those with a high probability of being elected, but Article 37 of the review method stipulates <conducting a public opinion poll by requesting the Central Party or an external organization with public trust>. It violated the Political Party Act because it was a 'secret confirmation' according to the principle that the results are not made public when the test is carried out.
Representative Lee took the initiative in selecting the 'Central Party' and 'opinion polling agency' and used this as the basis for 'confirming the significant gap', and from the optimist's perspective, he caused the 'official confirmation procedure' to be omitted for 'confirming the significant gap' .
Regarding the method of reviewing nominations, the Democratic Party's rules relied on 'opinion polls from external organizations' and implemented an undemocratic method that stipulates 'non-disclosure of opinion poll results' as party rules, and the exception in Article 2 is limited to <when there is a request by the Supreme Committee Reconsideration Committee>. By making it possible to view the results, the method of 'dismissing the retrial' was abused as an excuse for 'procedural defects in the retrial'.