PPP: "Only Kim Gwan-young expelled? A rerun of nominations where pro-Lee thrive and anti-Lee are cut down"

[The Financial News] The People Power Party (PPP) criticized the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) for expelling only Jeonbuk Governor Kim Gwan-young while imposing no disciplinary measures on lawmaker Jeon Jae-su and former Seongdong District mayor Jung Won-oh, calling it "a rerun of nominations where pro-Lee figures hit the jackpot and anti-Lee figures are politically killed."
Park Sung-hoon, chief spokesperson of the PPP, stated in a commentary on the 4th, "The fact that the party applies particularly strict standards only to figures with a weak factional base or little political clout shows that disciplinary criteria are determined not by what they did, but by factional interests."
Park went on, "Representative Jeon is under investigation by a joint police-prosecution task force on suspicion of receiving 20 million won in cash and a Cartier watch worth 7.85 million won from the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (Unification Church), yet the DPK has not initiated any separate disciplinary process against him." He added, "Former mayor Jung, of the so-called 'Cancún trip' scandal, faces suspicions of official document forgery, including a female applicant’s gender being changed to male and screening committee members’ signatures being falsified after the fact following the Cancún trip, but far from ordering an internal probe, the DPK is shielding him on all fronts at the party level."
Park further pointed out, "Because President Lee Jae Myung praised him so highly, they are even neglecting their basic duty to establish the facts, and DPK lawmakers are rushing to protect him as if competing in displays of loyalty. This reveals the true face of a party that has lost any normal capacity for self-correction."
He continued, "The DPK immediately decided to expel Governor Kim as soon as CCTV footage emerged showing him handing out cash to local young people at a dinner gathering," and criticized, "Their hard-line response toward 'non-mainstream' figures who belong neither to the pro-Jeong Cheong-rae camp nor the pro-Lee Jae Myung camp, as if to make an example of them, is not internal control but mere 'selective punishment.'"
Park warned, "A party that abandons its standards will inevitably destroy its own credibility," adding, "They must not forget that the price of breaking their own standards for short-term political gain will inevitably come back as even deeper distrust and a bigger backlash."

stand@fnnews.com Seo Ji-yoon Reporter