PPP lawmaker says Basic Income Party should lose registration, Yong Hye-in should lose seat

People Power Party lawmaker Joo Jin-woo said the Basic Income Party’s registration should be canceled because some of its provincial and metropolitan offices are listed at locations such as a farm and a private apartment.

At a news conference at the National Assembly on the 8th, Joo cited a Channel A report and claimed that six of the party’s 10 provincial and metropolitan offices are located in farms or apartments. “The South Chungcheong Provincial Party is registered at a farm, while the Incheon City Party is registered at a private apartment,” he said.

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The South Chungcheong Provincial Party is registered at a farm, while the Incheon City Party is registered at a private apartment.

Joo argued that such places cannot function as normal party offices. “Anyone can see that a farm and an apartment are not normal offices for a party’s provincial or metropolitan branches, and that it is impossible to carry out official party activities there,” he said.

He pointed to the Political Parties Act, which requires a party to maintain at least five provincial or metropolitan branches and to have at least 1,000 members in each branch’s jurisdiction. Joo said the allegations could provide grounds to cancel the Basic Income Party’s registration, arguing that the party had failed to meet the legal requirements from the outset. He also said that if the registration is canceled, lawmaker Yong Hye-in should lose her parliamentary seat, and that he would request investigations by the election authorities and police.

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Anyone can see that a farm and an apartment are not normal offices for a party’s provincial or metropolitan branches, and that it is impossible to carry out official party activities there.