Lee Youngsoo, Head of Democratic Party Gyeongbuk, Elected as Co-Chair of 'Hyuksinhoeui', the Largest Pro-Myung Organization

Lee Youngsoo (49), head of the Democratic Party of Korea Gyeongbuk Provincial Committee, announced on the 23rd that he has been elected as the Co-Chairperson of the "Democratic National Innovation Council" (Innovation Council), the largest pro-Lee Jae-myung faction organization.

According to the Innovation Council, on the 21st, a joint innovation meeting was held at the main auditorium of the National Assembly Members' Office Building in Yeouido, Seoul, where Lee Youngsoo, head of the Gyeongbuk Provincial Committee, Kang Sunwoo (Member of the National Assembly), Heo Taejeong (former Mayor of Daejeon), Yoo Dongcheol (Professor at Dong-Eui University), and Bang Yongseung (Co-Chairperson of the Jeonbuk Innovation Council) were approved as new standing co-chairs.

Youngsoo Lee, Chairman of the Democratic Party Gyeongbuk Provincial Committee

Launched in June last year under the slogan "Party Innovation, Political Reform, Change of Government," the Innovation Council produced 31 members of the National Assembly in this general election, and the number of affiliated lawmakers has now increased to 44.

The Innovation Council announced that, together with the cooperative parliamentary group, it will strengthen policy research and legislative activities, and will expand and reorganize into an organization for presidential election victory and change of government by building organizations in 226 cities, counties, and districts nationwide and recruiting 100,000 innovation committee members.

Lee Youngsoo, the newly appointed Co-Chairperson of the Innovation Council, stated, "The Innovation Council must become the vanguard of regime change, opening a world of fairness and prosperity together with Lee Jaemyung, and furthermore, let us become a new force that presents a vision for party innovation and political reform that can realize practical politics and win the support of the people."

Lee Youngsoo, the new chairperson, is a former farmers' movement activist from Yeongcheon, Gyeongbuk. He joined the Democratic Party during the last presidential election through talent recruitment and ran as the 22nd National Assembly candidate for Yeongcheon-Cheongdo. He has served as the head of the Yeongcheon-Cheongdo regional committee and as the party's central spokesperson. He was elected as head of the Gyeongbuk Provincial Committee last July and was appointed as the first secretary of the Democratic Party's City and Provincial Committee Chairs' Council earlier this month, drawing attention as a next-generation politician.