Park Deokheum of People Power Party Leaves Party Amid 'Preferential Contract Award Suspicion'..."Won't Burden the Party"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] Park Deok-heum, a member of the People Power Party, declared his resignation from the party on the 23rd, stating, "I judged that it is right to relinquish party membership so as not to burden the party."

Park held a press conference at the National Assembly Communication Office in the afternoon and said, "I intend to leave the People Power Party today."

Park, a member of the National Assembly Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, is under suspicion of receiving preferential contracts for large-scale construction projects from supervised institutions through a construction company registered under his family's name.