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| ▲ In addition, Democratic Party representative Lee Nak-yeon is having a meeting with officials at the Seoul Gangseo Child Protection Agency on the afternoon of the 6th. | |
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The aftermath of the amnesty of Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye thrown by the party leader of the Democratic Party together with Lee Nak-yeon on New Year’s Day in 2021 is intensifying. In the JTBC New Year’s debate aired on the 5th, the “no pardon” citizen who lived in Gangnam-gu, Seoul told me over the phone. As much as the many interpretations made by the politics and the media, the short argument of this woman’candlelight citizen’ contained many topics.
“I’m really curious about who said pardons, and they still don’t admit their sins. Rather, they say that it’s political retaliation or unfairness. But what kind of amnesty they are talking about, they say pardons in the name of national unity. I wonder if it is an integration for
I held candles on a cold winter day in 2017. If you buy it now, it will be very collapsed. In my opinion, the same is true now, but I think more stringent morals and ethics should be applied to the high-ranking and powerful people.”
The demands of the candlelight citizens, the cause and legitimacy of the amnesty, the meaning of the political investigation of national unity, the poor morality and ethical consciousness of Korean society’s vested interests, and the direction of the current government in favor of the candlelight government. The weight of Lee’s amnesty was about this. Both the large and the opposition parties are constantly in the midst of a serenity. In the Democratic Party, internal opposition and evolution went back and forth, and the power of the people crossed between embarrassment and political calculations.
Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myeong, the leading presidential runner of the passport along with Lee, said in the JTBC debate, but indirectly. On the 3rd, when the pros and cons of Lee Nak-yeon’s speech were in full swing, a Netflix documentary was posted on Facebook. <위기의 민주주의>Governor Lee, who introduced the vested rights cartel, referred to the impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye at the end of the article, saying, “Reforming the vested rights cartel is the very common purpose.”
“The candlelight was not lit only for the impeachment of Park Geun-hye. It was an order to break down all walls of unjust political power and strong vested interests in our society. It was a reformation of the chaebol, media, finance, and bureaucratic powers as well as prosecution and judicial reform. That’s why we have to go ahead without delay.”
Is President Lee Nak-yeon first?
Representative Lee handed over the ball to President Moon Jae-in on the date of the post-storm with amnesty. Not only the Blue House, but both the former president and the ruling party were forced to devote themselves to counting. Amnesty itself is evolving into a huge black hole.
In particular, the embarrassment of passport and passport supporters must have doubled. The flow of public opinion was the same. 5 days when the pros and cons show contention <오마이뉴스> This was the result of a regular poll on the first week of January on the 6th of Real Meter, where the approval rate of the president and the ruling party fell and the approval rate of the people rose compared to the previous week.
It’s a natural result. In terms of timing, legitimacy, and procedure, it must have been a topic that was raised knowing that CEO Lee cannot persuade the majority of the people more than anyone else. What should be clarified is the question of whether Lee’s sudden amnesty is calculated more inclined to the identity of the ruling party president or the presidential election runner.
In recent months, presidential election runner Lee Nak-yeon’s approval rating has been stagnant or declining. Representative Lee put forward on the basis of national unity, but the interpretation that the amnesty theory is a countermeasure to the decline in approval ratings or a hurdle to embrace the middle conservatives is dominant. Among the ruling party supporters, there are not a few criticisms that presidential election runner Lee Nak-yeon’s anxiety brought a handshake that turned away from the spirit of the times.
It wasn’t even the treatment of the Severe Accident Company Penalty Act, which was faithful to the original draft. It was not a national disaster subsidy for overcoming Corona 19, an improvement in medical and quarantine systems, or a real estate reform plan. There was no public welfare or reform. Although it was said that it was triggered by Lee’s media interview, the only thing that remained was amnesty, and what was confirmed was not national unity, but tight pros and cons, and disagreements between generations and camps.
As a presidential election runner, he may have succeeded in throwing the subject. Some have come up with the prospect that this amnesty will be advantageous in securing the middle class in the by-election that is coming three months ahead. Haengyeo Lee may have had such a pavilion personally.
Could it be? In this by-election, where the Democratic Party, which has faced the greatest crisis with the lowest approval rating since the power of office, is evaluated as the presidential class, can it face a reversal with the unfinished theory of national unity, as the pardon of the former presidents? Where was the result of the last general election, which ended with the Democratic Party’s overwhelming victory, the result of such political engineering and counting?
It would be one of the following two if you thought that the early discussion of pardons by the former president, which was neither public nor reform, could overcome the backlash of the rabbit and catch the hares. Either Lee is too naive, or the old value of national unity was originally a belief.
In that respect, it was not neat, just, or just that President Lee fell over the president’s will as the controversy began. In the end, the decline in approval ratings and anxiety as a presidential candidate that the factor of reversal is opaque might reveal the essence of politician Nak-yeon Lee.
If that impatience did not lead to forgetting the desire for reform, is it not that Lee admitted in this amnesty excommunication that he lacked the vision or willingness to reform as the representative of the ruling party in the first place.
The old value of national integration
“If we couldn’t promote reform properly even with the seat of 176 seats, who would want to give us another vote in the next presidential election? The time given for the 176 seats is not four years, but two years right now. The Weihai Party must change into a completely different shape from before. It must look at the people.”
At the convention ahead of the Democratic Party presidential election in August last year, Lee’s rival, Rep. Park Joo-min, vomited such an affair. This was just 5 months ago. After Lee set the fire on the amnesty, it is time for Lee himself to ponder the reason why Congressman Park’s speech at the time was circulated among passport supporters. The same is the reason for introducing Lee’s work with Rep. Park and Governor Lee, who were former competitors or are current competitors.
In a straightforward way, is the demand of the citizens who drove 180 seats in the passport and the candlelight citizens in line with the amnesty theory? The people and passport supporters are asking the ruling party leader. Is it time to worry about their approval ratings now that commoners are suffering from the polarization of Corona 19? Is the old value of national unity, which has historically been emphasized as a rhetoric to maintain the regime in the past authoritarian regime, and has been suspected of fictitiousness?
The political engineering of presidential candidate Lee Nak-yeon, who came up with an amnesty at the time when the public must strive for reform and solve the Corona 19 crisis to promote the public’s livelihood, can lead the people to unity and at the same time be the beginning of the ruling party’s by-election victory. I wonder if there will be.