Jo Jeonghun: "Did Nosamo blindly follow like Gaeddal... Despair in the Democratic Party"

MBC Interview "No Promise of Nomination"
People Power Party and Sidaejeonhwan to Merge Possibly by Late November

Jo Jeong-hoon, a member of the Transition Party, revealed on the 5th that he is considering running for the Seoul Mapo-gap district in next year's general election. Mapo-gap is the district where the incumbent, Roh Woong-rae of the Democratic Party of Korea, is currently on trial. However, Jo explained that he decided to run before Roh's case surfaced.

On the same day, Jo appeared on MBC Radio's 'Kim Jong-bae's Focus' and said, "I thought about where a centrist like me could succeed based on personal competitiveness, rather than in a stronghold of the progressive or conservative camps," adding, "Because I do not want anyone to suffer losses, I chose a place where there is currently no People Power Party member or local committee chairman."

Regarding the Democratic Party, which he was once a part of, he criticized, "The current Democratic Party is not a party moving forward in terms of how and what politics is done; it is stuck in the past." Jo was elected as a proportional representative for the Democratic Party's satellite party, the Together Citizens' Party, in the 21st general election.

On the 21st of last month, Jo Jeong-hoon, a member of the Transition Era party who declared the merger at the People Power Party's Accompaniment Pledge Ceremony held at the Gangseo-gu Culture and Welfare Center, is speaking. [Image source=Yonhap News]

He continued, "During my three and a half years in the legislature, I especially felt despair watching Lee Jae-myung's Democratic Party," and pointed out, "Did former President Kim Dae-jung engage in such divisiveness, or did 'Nosamo' (the group of people who love Roh Moo-hyun) blindly follow like 'Gaeddal' (daughters of reform)? The Democratic Party I knew was so different that I spent three and a half years in shock."

According to Jo, the merger procedure between the People Power Party and the Transition Party will be completed as early as the end of November. Regarding the conditions of the merger, he said, "There is absolutely nothing like that. If there were promises of a certain number of seats or nominations for me, the news would have already come out."