People Power Party (PPP) lawmaker Bae Hyun-jin urged PPP leader Jang Dong-hyuk to step away from election campaigning in the Seoul metropolitan area.
Bae, who chairs the PPP's Seoul branch, said on Facebook on Saturday, "I hope our Jang Dong-hyuk visits the Daegu mayoral race, the North Gyeongsang governor race, or by-election districts and forgets about the metropolitan area." She added, "Especially, no meddling in the Seoul election."
Earlier that day, Jang visited Inwang Market in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, the former constituency of Woo Sang-ho, the Democratic Party's candidate for Gangwon governor.
"After ignoring fellow lawmakers for so long over the ethics committee, the hunger strike, and the U.S. visit, his belated obsession looks like an avoidant boyfriend," Bae said. "He should realize that candidates have been able to breathe only because citizens have briefly forgotten the intense U.S. visit controversy. In other words, staying still is what helps."
She continued, "The central election committee and other official bodies inevitably force exposure, but isn't it time to show the subtle virtue of letting the metropolitan election committee and each campaign handle things on their own?" She added, "Let's read the room. Or write a diary while talking to roses."
In January, when Jang was carrying on a hunger strike, he placed a rose at the protest site and posted handwritten notes on Facebook including phrases such as "I must not collapse first."
