At the end of the baseball season, sit by the warm fire and prepare for the next season. It's 2023 without big elections, but our politics are still hot. Svspremium's off-season political consulting <Stove League>! We provide consulting on Korean politics with leading political analysts in Korea.

On April 4, the new Democratic Party leader was elected. He is a three-term member of Parliament Park Kwang-on, known as Lee Nak-yeon. Contrary to everyone's expectations, Park Kwang-on won a majority of the votes in the first round of voting, beating out lawmakers Kim Doo-kwan, Park Beom-gye, and Hong Ik-pyo.

The money-bag incident at the 28 convention has caused a steady stream of noise inside and outside the Democratic Party. Can new Senate Leader Park Kwang-on keep pace with Lee Jae-myung on the path of renewal and integration? In <Stove League>, Senate Minority Leader Park Kwang-on analyzes the way forward.


A good partner for the ruling party, Senate Leader Park Kwang-on



New Senate Minority Leader Park Kwang-on appointed Rep. Song Ki-heon as Senior Vice Leader of the Senate, and Assemblymen Kim Han-kyu and Lee So-young as Senior Vice Leader of the Senate. There is an assessment that the party leadership has assembled a non-pro-name delegation to strike a balance in a situation where there is a strong pro-name overtone.

Yoon Tae-gon (Political Analysis Office) analyzed that there will be expectations for the system of Senate Leader Park Kwang-on in the power of the people.



Can the
ruling party continue to refuse and fight like this? Shouldn't something be done? Even in the current system of Senate Leader Yoon Jae-ok (People's Power), there are many such concerns. In the system of Senate Minority Leader Park Kwang-on (MDP), we try to find a point of contact in the symbolic areas of policy, and if the people's power does not respond, the Democratic Party may have the upper hand politically.

Choices for Containing the Lee Jae-myung System

Representative Park Sung-min (political consultancy MIN) analyzed three reasons why Park Kwang-on was elected as the leader of the Senate.



Representative Park Sung-min Since he
is now monopolizing in the Lee Jae-myung regime, he has to keep things in check, especially before the nomination, and he must have taken such thoughts in the screaming world. And there will be fatigue, backlash against former Senate Minority Leader Park Hong-geun. It started with the Prosecutor's Investigation Rights Act and ended with the Civil Conviction Party. However, I think there was a backlash against the lawmakers for not even asking what they were doing, and I think there was a backlash against the fact that the lawmakers did not even ask what they were doing, and that they did not know where the Song Yong-gil money bag incident would spread.


Yoon Tae-gon said that in the pro-Myeonggye circle, Senate Minority Leader Park Kwang-on would have been an acceptable option.



Director
Yoon Tae-gon himself (Chin Myung-gye) himself cannot be maintained now. The so-called pro-myeong-gye and pro-myeong-gye seem to have a lot of numbers, but if you represent Lee Jae-myung and are originally close to him, it is not so much. I think it can be said that the strategic combination of 586, such as the pro-myeong-gye and right-wing councillors, was weaker than expected.

Will he coexist with Senate Leader Park Kwang-on and Party Leader Lee Jae-myung?

Senate Minority Leader Park Kwang-on's election remarks said, "We will take the path of winning unity together with all lawmakers," and "We will make sure to achieve bold change and solid integration." He used the word integration.

However, supporters of Lee Jae-myung, called the Daughter of Reform, are calling for the impeachment of Senate Leader Park Kwang-on. Will Senate Minority Leader Park Kwang-on be able to unify with Party Leader Lee Jae-myung?



If you look at what new Senate Leader
Park Kwang-on has been doing before, he said, 'There are no relatives here, and we have to go as we unite.' Since the MDP is in crisis right now, and since the party cannot hold a general election in the midst of such clashes and conflicts between the two sides, I think there will be a willingness to go in a completely different direction from former Senate Leader Park Hong-geun.


On the 3rd, lawmakers Yoon Seok-kwan and Lee Sang-min, who were involved in the "money bag allegations," voluntarily withdrew from the party. However, the money bag crisis has not been resolved.

In order to resolve the divisions that will arise within the MDP in the future, we advise that the consensus of Senate Leader Park Kwang-on and Party Leader Lee Jae-myung is necessary.



Representative
Park Sung-min If you really mishandle it, it could ignite another faction war, so there will have to be some kind of consensus (agreement) between party leader Lee Jae-myung and Senate leader Lee Jae-myung on this issue. Including former CEO Song Young-gil. With the general election coming, there has to be a direction on how to deal with this issue, not how one side can unilaterally deal with it.



(The rest of the story is from the soup)