Yang Moon-seok ‘Roh Moo-hyun’s traitor should be deported abroad’, Ryu Si-min ‘criticism is justified’, Lee Jae-myeong ‘recommendation maintained’
While Democratic Party candidate Yang Moon-seok attempted to ‘deport Roh Moo-hyun’s traitor’, former Chairman Yoo Si-min announced a ‘criticism party’, and Representative Lee Jae-myeong announced on the 18th that he would ‘maintain the recommendation’.
On February 15, 2007, Candidate Yang said in the Press News <Traitors must be called traitors>, “Traitors should be called traitors, and we must expose ‘masked Americans’ pretending to be Koreans and prevent them from setting foot on Korean soil anymore. "We need to close the airports and drive them out. Fortunately, we should note that all the 'Americans' mentioned above are out in Spain and the United States," he said.
Since former President Roh Moo-hyun was visiting Spain at the time, he was demanding ‘expatriation’ following the ‘traitor’ rule.
Candidate Yang said, "Korea's popular culture, which has been difficult to awaken from the university culture of the 1980s, has now managed to create a public base that can be evaluated as 'Gyul crossed the river and became Tangja', and 'mask people' such as Roh Moo-hyun, Kim Jong-hoon, Kim Hyun-jong, and Han Deok-soo have emerged." He criticized his real name, saying, "The 'bitter Americans' have cracked and started leaking water again," and later went from Secretary General of Ungaeryun to a standing member of the Korea Communications Commission.
Former Roh Moo-hyun Foundation Chairman Yoo said in a broadcast by Kim Eo-jun, “First of all, there are more than one or two politicians in our country’s National Assembly who belittled, ridiculed and slandered President Roh Moo-hyun,” and added, “You can hate politician Yang Moon-seok just because he said such things. However, using that as a barrier to entry by saying, ‘You are not qualified to be a public official,’ I think it is an act of insulting President Roh Moo-hyun,” he said on the 18th, calling for ‘maintenance of the candidacy.’
On the 18th, Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party, announced to reporters that “the people will decide whether to hold candidate Yang accountable,” making it official that he would “maintain the nomination.”
Representative Lee told reporters on this day, “We must be held strictly accountable for comments that do not recognize the people as sovereign or disparage certain regions,” and added, “Remarks that question our identity as citizens of the Republic of Korea are truly outrageous words for which the people should be held accountable.” The ‘party recommendation system’ was deleted from the ‘citizens’ direct voting rights’.
The Democratic Party’s ‘party constitution’ has a separate clause on ‘public election elections’ in Chapter 12 and specifies <identity, contribution, ability to engage in legislative activities, morality, and electability> as the ‘examination criteria’ (Article 97).
The review criteria of the party constitution specifically stipulated that “those who have reasons for being clearly unsuitable to be recommended as candidates for public office elections, such as those with a history of serious conduct, are excluded,” strictly applying the ‘direct identification’ of political parties before the referendum.