Chung Cheong-Rae on Calls for 'Additional Voting' at Party Convention: "Voting coup... This Will Cause riots."
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Kyung-jun = The issue of 'additional voting' by party members has emerged as a variable in the Democratic Party of Korea's leadership race.
Jeong Cheong-rae, a candidate for the Democratic Party of Korea's leadership, criticized the proposal by some Supreme Council candidates to grant additional voting opportunities to party members with voting rights who did not vote, stating, "It is a voting coup. There has never been an election conducted this way in the history of any country in the world." Candidate Jeong made these remarks today.
Jeong Cheong-rae, a candidate for the leadership of the Democratic Party of Korea, appealed for support ahead of the national convention by emphasizing the dynamic of organization versus public sentiment. In particular, he criticized the demands of pro-Myeong candidates to change the regional voting method as a "voting coup" and maintained his stance that election rules cannot be changed. He appears to be focusing on rallying his support base by…
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