What is the reaction of the People’s Power Party to the transcript of Yoon Seok-yeol “I hate the National Power Party more than the Democratic Party”?

President Yoon Seok-yeol, who was elected as the People Power Party’s presidential candidate in the 20th presidential election, is causing a stir after a recording was made public showing that he hates the People Power Party more than the Democratic Party.

On June 30, 2021, former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol officially declared his candidacy for the presidential election. After Candidate Yoon ran for the presidential election, there was unprecedented interest in whether he would run for the third zone or join the People Power Party. Candidate Yoon joined the People Power Party on July 30, a month later, and was officially elected as the People Power Party’s presidential candidate through the presidential primary held in November.

On the 5th, citizen media outlet revealed the phone call between then-presidential candidate Yoon Seok-yeol and a People’s Power official just before joining the People Power Party in 2021.

Seok-yeol Yoon “I hate the People Power Party more than the Democratic Party.”

“I know 100 times that you hate the power of the country, and I hate it more than you. I hate the power of the country more than the Democratic Party. Why? When the Democratic Party was harming the power of the government like this, did the lawmakers of the power of the country fight?” (Presidential candidate Seok-yeol Yoon)

In the recording, President Yoon firmly says, “I hate national power more than the Democratic Party.” He claims that the People Power Party did not fight the Democratic Party, saying, “What did those friends do? Did they (People Power Party) fight when I was fighting alone?”

President Yoon confesses that “(to change the regime), no matter how much you hate the national power, you have no choice but to take the national power and use it as a platform,” and that in order to achieve a ‘regime change’, you must use the power of the people.

President Yoon’s disregard and ridicule toward the People Power Party continues throughout the transcript.

President Yoon says that if he had joined the People Power Party first, he could have prevented Representative Lee Jun-seok from being elected, and that he can close the party and dismiss or change the leadership. As for the possible reason, he explains, “He has no one in the national power to do this.”

Just looking at the transcript, it can be seen that President Yoon only perceives the People Power Party as an incompetent group and a political party that he can change as much as he wants. In particular, he boasts that if he joins the party, 80 out of 101 People Power Party members will follow him.

The People Power Party attacks the messenger, not the message.

A recording of President Yoon Seok-yeol ignoring and ridiculing the People Power Party has been released, but the leadership’s response is too quiet. The People Power Party leadership completely ignored the content and instead attacked as a fake news factory or refuted it as a ‘presidential election campaign scam’.

People Power Party leader Kim Ki-hyun said in response to a question from reporters at the National Assembly, “(Further investigation) can be called a media company. Isn’t it a fake news manufacturing factory?” and “It hasn’t been shut down yet. What are they doing? Please help us get it shut down quickly.” .

Floor leader Yoon Jae-ok said, “The very fact that such a report was made at this time can only be seen as an intention to undermine Kim Man-bae and Shin Hak-rim’s presidential election operation,” and added, “The matter was close to a personal statement before joining our party. “It is extremely inappropriate to report this,” he pointed out.

The beginning of a lame duck? Silent President’s Office

Some analysts say that the reason there is no opposition within the People Power Party is because President Yoon has already completely taken control of the party. In fact, President Yoon said in the transcript, “No matter how much Lee Jun-seok fusses, it’s only 3 months,” and the time from inauguration in May of last year to August of the same year to change the leadership under Joo Ho-young’s emergency committee system was just 3 months.

Regarding this, former CEO Lee Jun-seok said on his Facebook page, “If this is a fabrication, The Exploration Company will be closed. If it is true, I just think that Yoon Haek-kwan (a key official of President Yoon Seok-yeol) was not the problem.” “I won’t do it,” he wrote. It can be said that President Yoon Seok-yeol himself, not Yoon Haek-gwan, acknowledged that he led everything.

The President’s Office remains completely silent. If it weren’t for President Yoon’s remarks, he would have immediately refuted them, but there is no official comment or even an unofficial statement from a spokesperson.

Some even argued that it was a lame duck. Seo Young-kyo, a member of the Supreme Council of the Democratic Party of Korea, said at the Supreme Council meeting on the 6th, “The Yoon Seok-yeol administration is in total trouble. Secrets that have been hidden for so long are coming out again and again.” He added, “The fact that the secret conversation that the President personally had on the phone is coming out means that the President’s power is being drained and the President is at fault. “It’s proof that we’re doing it,” he said.