Cho Kuk, concerned about the division of opposition parties, said, "Even if I have a knife in my neck, I won't hold hands with Yoon."

Cho Kuk, chairman of the Innovation Party, drew the line on the 16th that there will be no such worries as the opposition party's division was raised as competition with the Democratic Party of Korea intensified over the by-elections for local government heads.The representative of

held a ceremony for the nomination of Jang Hyun for Yeonggwang-gun County in Yeonggwang, Jeollanam-do, and said, "Even if there is a knife in my neck, I will not join hands with the Yoon Suk Yeol and the people's power regime."

He then stressed that the Cho Kuk Innovation Party and the Democratic Party will unite in the presidential election, saying, "If you look at a person's past, you can see the future, but you will kneel in front of the Yoon Seok-yeol and Kim Gun-hee administrations."

At the same time, Chairman Cho said that it is not a presidential election now, adding that he will compete with the Democratic Party on which party and which candidate can carry out clean military administration with proper policies in Honam, including Yeonggwang.