Ahn Cheol-soo: “Calls to bring Han Dong-hoon back into the party are a tactic of dragging everyone down ... Just form a new party instead”

[Financial News] Ahn Cheol-soo of the People Power Party criticized calls to reinstate independent lawmaker Han Dong-hoon, calling them “a tactic of dragging everyone down by saying that all conservatives should drown together in the river of party reinstatement,” and rejected the calls, saying, “They should just form a new party.”
On the 12th, Ahn said on Facebook, “The river of party reinstatement has overflowed again,” adding, “As the Lee Jae-myung-led Democratic Party’s efforts to have charges dropped and bring fabricated indictments are getting underway in earnest, and the opposition is launching an all-out effort to stop them, calls to bring Han back into the party are being raised simultaneously both inside and outside the party.”
He continued, “One might reasonably wait and see whether an ethics committee member’s planned exposé is credible, but the pro-reinstatement activists seem fixated on the single phrase ‘fabricated disciplinary action’ and making a loud fuss. The party has been embroiled in turmoil over its members’ bulletin board since the beginning of the year, and after 10 months of ups and downs, it has only now managed to create an opportunity to take on the Lee Jae-myung administration—yet it is once again at risk of drowning in the river of party reinstatement.”
Ahn said, “Whenever reinstatement is raised, every issue—including conservative unity, the fight against the ruling party, and livelihood policies—is eclipsed, and the Lee Jae-myung government’s failures that cause people suffering, such as dropped charges, fabricated indictments, the collapse of national security, plunging stock prices, and rising home prices, are pushed into the background as well.” He added, “It has been only two days since the filibuster, the outdoor rally outside Gyeongbokgung Palace, the lawmakers’ caucus meeting in front of Cheong Wa Dae, and the one-person protests.”
He then asked rhetorically, “At this crucial point, should issues such as reinstatement and a rigged expulsion be brought into the spotlight again?”
Ahn said emphatically, “The more the river of party reinstatement overflows, the only side that thrives is the Democratic Party under Lee Jae-myung. Rather than shake the house and demand that its door be opened, the answer is to build a separate, new house. I hope they form a new party instead.”
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