By Jung Seok-jun, The Herald Business
The People Power Party on Tuesday urged voters to go to the polls, stressing the need to check the Lee Jae Myung government one day before the June 3 local elections.
Jang Dong-hyeok, standing chairman of the party's central election campaign committee, issued a public appeal, warning that "if local governments also fall, Lee Jae Myung's arrogance will cross the final red line and South Korea will become a country for Lee Jae Myung alone." He added that "razor-thin races are unfolding across the country — a single vote you give up could decide a winner, and that outcome could change the future of South Korea."
Jang also said that "on Monday, even as an explosion was occurring in Daejeon, Lee Jae Myung was posting on social media attacking the press, picking a fight with journalists over a stock market story." He questioned whether "the safety of the people, the lives of workers — is there truly nothing in this world more important than the stock market?"
He added that "if we fail to stop them on Wednesday, Lee Jae Myung and the Democratic Party will run rougher and harder, and the first thing they will push through is a special prosecutor bill to cancel his trial." He said that "what matters to Lee Jae Myung right now is not the economy, not people's livelihoods, not diplomacy or security — nothing is more important to him than erasing his own crimes."
Song Eon-seog, co-chairman of the party's election campaign committee, called on young voters to turn out and support People Power Party candidates. Speaking at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on Tuesday morning, Song released a statement addressed to voters in their 20s and 30s, asking them to "think a little harder about which party stands closer to young people's side and which party looks after young people's interests."
Song acknowledged that the party had "not yet become a party that fully represents the will of young people," but pledged to "make constant efforts to stand closer to their side." He urged young voters to "come to the polls on Wednesday without fail and cast your vote for your own interests."
Song also addressed the current state of the race, saying that Democratic Party leader Jung Chung-rae's recent boast that his party could sweep regional government head races 15 to 1 had "completely fallen apart across every region." He said voters "will be able to clearly feel that public sentiment is not going that way."
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