 ▲지난 2003년 노무현 대통령 당선자(왼쪽)와 만나고 있는 정진우 전 민주당 사무 부총장(오른쪽). Former Democratic Party Secretary-General Jeong Jin-woo (right) meeting with President-elect Roh Moo-hyun (left) in 2003. ©브레이크뉴스 자료사진. |
더불어민주당의 오랜 당료 출신인 정진우 전 사무 부총장이 5일 더불어민주당을 탈당한 것으로 알려졌다.
정 전 부총장은 김대중 대통령의 평화민주당으로 출발하여 당의 국장, 사무 부총장 등을 역임했다.
그는 탈당하기 전 더불어민주당 서울시당의 수석 부위원장과 중앙당의 국민통합위원회 부위원장을 맡고 있었다. 정진우 전 사무 부총장은 35년간 당을 지킨 여의도 정가에서는 잘 알려진 당료출신.
더불어민주당 내에서 김대중, 노무현 전 대통령 정신이 지워지고 극성 당원들이 좌우하는 근본 없는 정당이 되어버린 것에 대해 안타까워했던 것으로 전해졌다.
그는 한 측근에게 “현재 진행되는 대선후보 경선으로 나라가 온통 혼란에 빠진 초대형 부패사건의 와중에서도 사실상 결정된 경선결과가 과연 민주당정신이라고 말할 수 있는가? 당원으로서 떳떳하지 않으며 결코 인정할 수가 없어 탈당을 결심했다”고 밝혔으며 “앞으로 양심적이고 합리적인 많은 당원들이 공감할 것”이라고, 당내 분위기를 전했다.
당 주변에서는 “오랜 세월 더불어민주당과 함께했었는데 그런 당을 떠나게 되어 안타깝다”는, 말들이 오가고 있다.
*아래는 위 기사를 '구글 번역'으로 번역한 영문 기사의 [전문]이다. * Below is the [full text] of an English article translated from the above article as'Google Translate'.
Former Democratic Party Secretary-General Jeong Jin-woo, 'decision to leave the party'
"Can it be said that the actual outcome of the primary, which was decided in the midst of a large-scale corruption case, is the spirit of the Democratic Party?"
-Reporter Park Jeong-dae
It was reported on the 5th that former Vice-Chairman Jeong Jin-woo, a longtime member of the Democratic Party of Korea, left the Democratic Party. Former Vice-Chancellor Jeong started out as President Kim Dae-jung's Peace Democratic Party and served as the party's director and vice-president.
Before leaving the party, he served as senior vice chairman of the Seoul Party of the Democratic Party of Korea and vice chairman of the National Unity Committee of the Central Party. Former Vice-Secretary General Jeong Jin-woo came from a well-known party bureaucracy in the Jeong family in Yeouido, where he had defended the party for 35 years.
In addition, it is reported that he was sad that the spirit of former Presidents Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun had been erased from within the Democratic Party, and that the party had become a baseless party dominated by polar party members.
He said to an aide, “Can we really say that the result of the election, which was actually decided in the midst of a mega-corruption case in which the country is in chaos due to the current presidential election, is the spirit of the Democratic Party? I decided to leave the party because I was not proud as a member of the party and I could never admit it,” he said. ]
People around the party say, “I have been with the Democratic Party for a long time, but I am sorry to leave such a party”.
