Cho Kuk, leader of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party, expressed his view regarding the controversy over a merger between the Democratic Party and the Cho Kuk Innovation Party.

Via his Facebook page on the 7th, Cho said, “In the presidential election held right after the insurrection, the difference in vote share between Lee Jae Myung and Kwon Young-guk, and between Kim Moon-soo and Lee Jun-seok, was only 0.91%,” adding, “It is a big mistake to think that, intoxicated by the current approval ratings of the president and the Democratic Party, the upcoming local, general, and presidential elections will be won in a landslide.”

He said, “After Representative Jeong Cheong-rae proposed a merger, I am concerned about the behavior of some hardline opponents of unification inside and outside the Democratic Party,” and pointed out, “One may oppose a merger. The issue is not simply for or against.”

He emphasized, “Some hardline opponents of the merger label those who support it as ‘enemies’ and come at them as if to kill,” adding, “They have their own political objectives and financial interests. They are groups that showed similar behavior in the past and then collapsed.”

He went on, “Consider whether purging factions with different views within the Democratic Party and trampling the Innovation Party will help in the local, general, and presidential elections,” adding, “We must not forget the greater cause of solidarity and unity.”