Sim Sang-jung on 'Ahn Cheol-soo Sniping'... Bareunmirae Party Says "Nitpicking Everything"

"The Justice Party Has Become a Conservative Establishment... It Has Long Lost the People's Trust"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] On the 22nd, the Bareunmirae Party responded to Justice Party leader Sim Sang-jung's criticism that "Where was former lawmaker Ahn Cheol-soo when he should have been fighting desperately for electoral reform?" by saying, "While it is understandable to be wary of former lawmaker Ahn's emergence ahead of the general election, the indiscriminate criticism is absurd."

Kim Jeong-hwa, spokesperson for the Bareunmirae Party, said in a statement that day, "How can you speak lightly after selling justice to former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk?" and added, "Everyone should quietly do their work in their own circumstances instead of nitpicking everything."

He pointed out, "The Justice Party has no way of knowing the intentions of former lawmaker Ahn, who struggled on the front lines of future innovation while remaining silent during the Cho Kuk incident," and called Sim "an established politician more suited to the past than the future."

He continued, "Did you say that the accumulation of current daily responsibilities opens the future? If language garbage piles up, a garbage landfill will open in the future," and added, "Do not repeat old politics with baseless criticism."

Spokesperson Kim said, "The Justice Party has become a conservative vested interest group and has long lost the trust of the people," and "This is not the time to be self-absorbed and attack others."