Share the ‘\u89aa 00’ and fight to death
2nd year of nomination dispute could be rekindled
House price instability, high exchange rate, high price… There is no sign that the people’s livelihoods will be in disarray <\/p>\n
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\uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 In addition, the competition for the party’s leadership at the August 17 National Convention of the Democratic Party of Korea has been narrowed down to a three-way race between Kim Min-seok, Chung Chung-rae, and Song Young-gil (Kho Ki-soon). [Yonhap News] <\/p>\n
President Lee Jae Myung asked, “Don’t fight like an enemy,” but did words become seeds? Looking at the ruling party’s leadership race, it seems to be flowing in the opposite direction. They seem to aim their dagger at each other with the determination that they will die if they lose. Some even say that the internal party’s fight is rougher than the struggle with the opposition party. At this rate, even if the national convention is over, the emotional resentment will inevitably last for a long time.<\/p>\n
Still, it’s the ruling party’s primary, and I thought he would pretend to be discussing people’s livelihoods. Or, it is necessary to have a policy competition between the 86th Movement forces and the middle-of-the-road pragmatic line to understand why the people are fighting. They do not care about the people, but only engage in enemy communication battles that divide them into “relatives vs. counterparts” and search for past records.<\/p>\n
Following Yoo Si-min’s “Extension, Reconstruction, and Redevelopment Theory,” “Extension, Reconstruction, and Redevelopment Theory,” and “Rotten Inside the Fish Market,” former Prime Minister Kim Min-seok’s suspicion of “intervention in Shincheonji” is growing, causing public fatigue in regressive negative politics.<\/p>\n
If this was a simple party leadership election, it would not have been this bad. Why did it become such a cut-throat fight. Perhaps the shock of the general election two years ago remains in the memory of the ruling party lawmakers. The 22nd general election, in which President Lee was the leader of the party, was marred by controversy over “expletive death” throughout the nomination process. The conviction and urgency that such a “nomination massacre” will be repeated in two years is probably the essence of the current power struggle.<\/p>\n
That’s why it’s more problematic after the convention. If it ends like this, it is questionable whether the ruling party can play its role. The winner will shout unity, but the loser’s wounds will not heal easily. Two years goes by in no time. As the general election approaches, the current emotions can be revived intact. In the worst case, the Bundang scenario is mentioned as the forces that protested the elimination of the nomination split.<\/p>\n
The reason why the public is anxious about the ruling party’s leadership race is because it is directly related to President Lee Jae Myung’s state administration. There are many observations that the president’s political position will be greatly shaken depending on who the next party leader is. Lawmakers will look at the representative who holds the right to nominate candidates, and the president’s control of state affairs and policy driving force may weaken.<\/p>\n
President Lee’s approval rating has already fallen to its lowest level since he took office after going through the primary process. In this situation, can reform tasks such as labor, pensions, and public institutions be strongly promoted.<\/p>\n
Looking at the trajectory of past presidents’ approval ratings, once they start to slip, it is hard to recover. Of course, the trigger for the decline was different for each regime. There were also incidents such as the U.S. beef scandal and the Ferry Sewol disaster, and there were cases where the people turned their back due to accumulated failures in policies for people’s livelihoods such as real estate.<\/p>\n
The current situation of the Lee Jae Myung government is not easy. Expectations, which reached 60-70% at the beginning of his inauguration, are rapidly cooling down. The public’s patience has reached its limit due to the controversy over the cancellation of the prosecution’s right to investigate the prosecution, which has yet to be concluded. On top of that, the Election Commission’s poor management of ballots also overlapped. In the eyes of the people, it’s a “favor and dislike competition.”The party leadership race must also be a factor that erodes the president’s approval rating.<\/p>\n
What about me. The stock market is shaken and real estate instability remains, but there is no sign of resolution to the turmoil such as high prices, high exchange rates, and youth jobs. This is why it is difficult for people to feel the increase in semiconductor exports and the outlook for 3% growth.<\/p>\n
In previous administrations, when the president’s approval rating was declining, he would try to rebound by increasing overseas trips and attracting corporate investment. However, the public now knows well that such an event diplomacy does not immediately improve people’s livelihoods. If the real estate market continues to be unstable even though the holding tax is strengthened, pressure to change policies inside and outside the party could increase. Twenty days from now, whatever the outcome of the primary, the government and the ruling party will be put to a real test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Share the ‘\u89aa 00’ and fight to death2nd year of nomination dispute could be rekindledHouse price instability, high…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[52689,52693,35519,51641,34196,52694,52695,52699,52704,52706,31,146,52703,52701,20942,30113,52690,52698,32556,52700,52696,52705,52692,2496,45083,52691,33,52697,52702,16973],"class_list":["post-101731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-86-movement-rights","tag-cancellation-of-public-prosecution","tag-chief-cabinet-secretary","tag-complementary-investigation-rights","tag-corporate-investment","tag-election-sites","tag-falling-support","tag-free-construction","tag-gallup","tag-industry-specialists","tag-korea","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-munhwa","tag-munjo-talaeyu","tag-namu","tag-national-convention","tag-negative","tag-negative-evaluation","tag-nomination","tag-occupation-price","tag-overseas-tour","tag-politicians","tag-power-struggle","tag-prosecution-reform","tag-public-opinion","tag-scenario","tag-south-korea","tag-state-administration-manipulation","tag-wiki","tag-yonhap-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}