At that time, "Suddenly, Kim Youngsun?"The recording of Myeongtae Gyun who's shouting at me.

[Anchor]
Two years ago, the issue of nomination for the by-elections of the National Assembly, which is drawing attention for the disclosure of fostering the president of Yoon Suk Yeol, and at that time, the selection of former lawmaker Kim Young-sun was unexpected.

It was evaluated as a politician who had a somewhat distant image of reform, and as such, the suspicion that Myung Tae-kyun's recordings support the suspicion of involvement by President Yoon and his wife is not easily abated.

I'm reporter Kim Da-yeon.

[Reporter]
The suspicion of Yoon and his wife's involvement in the nomination over former lawmaker Kim Young-sun, the People's Power, is largely divided into a by-election two years ago and a general election in April.

The key is the 2022 by-election, which led to the victory of the finals.

[Yoon Suk Yeol / Then-President-elect (May 9, 2022): The mission committee brought it to me, so I asked Kim Young-sun to do it because she's been running hard since the election, but she's talking a lot. At the party....]

What is noteworthy is President Yoon's remark that "the party has a lot of talk," and it is said that there were many back-and-forth comments about former lawmaker Kim's nomination at the time.

It was because former lawmaker Kim, who had been separated in the 19th and 20th elections in a row, broke a 10-year gap and was selected in South Gyeongsang Province, where even the regional base was weak.

Rep. A, who was the party's leadership at the time, recalled that there were opinions on why former Rep. Kim should be nominated in a phone call with YTN.

However, he said he could not overturn the nomination committee's decision unless it was a serious defect.

Rep. Lee Joon-seok, the party's leader at the time, also claimed that two to three nominations were unclear in the two by-elections of the National Assembly in 2022.

He said he would not conclude by the influence of the president, but added that he would not rule out the possibility.

Those who were in charge of the nomination process at the time agree that former lawmaker Kim was recognized as a senior and was ahead of other candidates in the evaluation items, but
There is a growing suspicion of
nomination intervention.

In June 2022, an additional phone recording was released that threatened former lawmaker Kim, saying that Myung Tae-kyun, a key figure in the suspicion, should be close to Kim Gun-hee to lead the sixth term.

[Myeong Tae Gyun (mid-June 2022): Don't you have to get close to Kim Gun Hee to win the 6th term? You have to do what you're told. Kim Gun-hee is in power. Why don't you do what you're told to do?]

The Democratic Party says it seems that it has yet to hear a third of the recorded files related to the suspicion of Myung Tae-kyun.

The ruling party claims that Myung is a political broker with a lot of bluster and that it is the Democratic Party's offensive ahead of Lee Jae-myung's sentence, but is watching the unusual repercussions of the situation.

I'm Kim Dayeon of YTN.

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: Lee Seong-mo and Han Sang-won
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