People Power Party selects Yoon Jae-bok for Yongin A organizing chair

The People Power Party's Special Committee for Organizational Strengthening said on the 16th that it had selected candidate Yoon Jae-bok as organizing chair for Yongin A in Gyeonggi.

In the Yongin A primary, it was confirmed that 44 party members did not receive calls during an ARS telephone runoff vote among dues-paying party members on the 8th between candidate Yang, a serving Supreme Council member, and candidate Yoon. A runoff revote did not take place after Yang said he would not participate. Yoon is expected to be formally appointed following a subsequent Supreme Council resolution.

Conflict between party leader Jang Dong-hyuk and candidate Yang reportedly continued at the previous day's closed Supreme Council meeting, where raised voices were heard.

Supreme Council member Yang countered on Facebook that he had accepted the primary result in accordance with an agreement and had only demanded a thorough investigation, rather than calling for a new election. He said it was party leader Jang who had said a new election would be held, and criticized the party by asking whether it intended to bury the issues raised when nothing had changed except his announcement that he would not participate in a runoff revote.

Former lawmaker Shin Ji-ho, who belongs to the pro-Han faction, alleged that irregular circumstances had been found in multiple primaries. He urged the formation of a neutral fact-finding team excluding the faction holding party power, with priority given to a swift and accurate investigation.