Dismantling the New Reform Party?... "Lee Joon-seok's politics as king" and "delusion" open conflict.

[Anchor]
The internal feud of the leadership of the New Reform Party, which began with the replacement of party officials, is approaching the point of entry.

When Representative Heo Eun-ah accused Representative Lee Joon-seok of "Sangwang politics," Lee's side responded to give up their delusions and clashed publicly.

This is reporter Son Hyo-jung.

[Reporter]
The Supreme Council of the New Reform Party was held after Heo Eun-ah replaced former Secretary-General Kim Chul-geun, who is close to Rep. Lee Joon-seok.

Participants sat face to face in a chilly atmosphere, but there was a loud voice from the beginning due to the problem of attending the meeting of city and provincial chairmen.

[Jung Kook-jin/Chairman of the New Reform Party Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province: Come out, then I have no choice but to come in. Why are you two coming in? (I knew Jung Kook wasn't coming in, you didn't tell me!)

began a public meeting, and Representative Heo said he was trying to kick out the party leader for upsetting major shareholders, and Rep. Lee Joon-seok directly pointed out that the obsession with Sangwang politics should be abandoned.

[Heo Eun-ah / Leader of the New Reform Party: What is happening is no different from what happened in the summer of 2022 in the power of the people. (What has changed is that the party leader is Heo Eun-ah, not Lee Jun-seok, and the majority shareholder is Lee Jun-seok, not Lee Yoon Suk Yeol.)

In response, floor leader Cheon Ha-ram directly refuted Huh's claim, saying that the cause of the dispute was the conflict over the nomination of proportional representatives during the last general election.

[Chun Ha-ram / Floor Leader of the New Reform Party: Heo Eun-ah's failure to win the nomination for proportional representation caused a lot of pain and... I think that those parts were the essence of this situation.]

Other supreme council members also called for Heo's resignation.

[Lee Ki-in / Supreme Council member of the New Reform Party: Heo is mistaken for all these issues as insidious, scheming and unintentional political distress directed at him. Delusion is also a disease at this level.]

The rupture continued during the meeting.As floor leader

Cheon's remarks continued for about an hour, representative Heo intervened and a war of nerves broke out

[Huh Eun-ah / Leader of the New Reform Party: It seems to be taking too much time. (Let me tell you) He's been talking to himself for 35 minutes.]

There was also a skit in which Rep. Lee Ju-young, the existing chairman of the policy committee, and Jung Sung-young, newly appointed by representative Heo, stayed together.

Out-of-house chairmen clashed in the process of the meeting being closed to the public.

[Lee Kyung-sun / Chairman of the New Reform Party: Are you involved? "Are you a person concerned?" (Chairman Lee Kyung-sun!) Be quiet, (Chairman Lee Kyung-sun!) Be quiet, call me Mr. Kyung-sun, hey!]
Rep. Lee, who has been identified as a party to
Senior politics, asked what specific actions he had done.

[Lee Jun-seok/Representative of the New Reform Party] I won't be able to tell you in detail what he did to the extent that he was referred to as the "Sangwang" by representative Heo Eun-ah. I didn't actually do that.]

The internal strife of the New Reform Party surfaced with the replacement of Secretary-General Kim Chul-geun and Policy Committee Chairman Lee Ju-young, who are close to Lee Joon-seok, but some analysts say that the essence is a battle between representative Heo and lawmaker Lee for the party's power.

I'm Son Hyojung of YTN.

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