A total of 1,015 People Power Party (PPP) registered members and Seocho-gu residents have submitted a petition to the Seoul Metropolitan Council's Nomination Management Committee, protesting the exclusion of Seoul Metropolitan Council member Park Sang-hyuk during the nomination process for the June 3 local elections.
According to the PPP on the 19th, the petition calls for the withdrawal of the single-candidate designation for Seocho-gu's 1st electoral district and demands that Councilman Park be guaranteed an opportunity to compete in a primary.
The petition also argues that while Park has no grounds for nomination exclusion in terms of his career or ethics, he was nevertheless excluded. Meanwhile, the petition contends it is inappropriate that a particular figure active in Bangbae-dong received a single-candidate nomination to run in Seocho-gu's 1st electoral district, which is not his own home district.
Park's side claimed, "There are suspicions that a National Assembly member is behind the decision to field a candidate in an area that is neither his home district nor where he has any local ties."
