Election war that turned into 'impeachment battle'... "Paint political controversy" and "Editing distortion"

[Anchor]
The October 16 by-elections are small-scale elections to select the heads of county and district offices of four basic organizations, but the leaders of the ruling and opposition parties are showing signs of overheating.

In particular, remarks made by Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea, during the support campaign turned into an "impeachment battle," leading to a sharp war of words between the ruling and opposition parties.

I'm reporter Jeong In-yong.

[Reporter]
Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea, said this while campaigning to support the by-election in Ganghwa County, Incheon.

[Lee Jae-myung/Democratic Party leader (5th): If it's too serious to wait for the election, you can't bring it down even in the middle. This is democracy and this is representative politics, right?]
Representative Han Dong-hoon of the People's Power of
strongly protested that the representative Lee turned it into a political battleground, mentioning that he would bring down the president in the local elections for the people's livelihood.

Representative Na Kyung-won also reminded Representative Lee of his first trial in November, saying that representative Lee's impeachment offensive is running wild without knowing the end.

[Choo Kyung-ho / People's Power Floor Leader: Didn't you just reveal what you had in mind, not "impeachment in mind"? (Representative Lee Jae-myung) The Democratic Party seems to be in a hurry as the first trial ruling is approaching.]

Kim Min-seok, the supreme council member of the Democratic Party, refuted that he distorted and edited the words of the opposition leader.He turned the general theory of representative democracy into an impeachment slogan, saying, 'If you can't work

, you'll replace it at any time,' and sarcastically asked if representative Han wanted to impeach him.

Amid the turmoil between the ruling and opposition parties, the opposition parties have unified candidates for the Busan Geumjeong-gu District Office by-election.

[Cheon Joon-ho / Chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea Strategic Planning Committee: Kim Kyung-ji of the Democratic Party of Korea and the Cho Kuk Innovation Party are the opposition's single candidate]

Representative Han, who condemned the opposition party, saying that they were also engaged in political collusion in central politics, continued his campaign in Busan for the second day and focused on defense.

[Han Dong-hoon / Representative of People's Power: It is not an election that attracts central political strife, but an election that determines who can work and who can practice it for the sake of political control. Wouldn't the power of the people be able to do well?The election, which is held on such a small scale that it is called

{Mini by-elections', is so intense that the impeachment debate is going back and forth, which is not irrelevant to the current situation of the leaders of the ruling and opposition parties.

Analysts say that representative Han Dong-hoon, who is considered to have a weak position and power in the party, and representative Lee Jae-myung must reduce the impact of judicial risks as much as possible to make a small victory.

This is YTN Jeong Yong-yong.

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