Samcheok: Lee Jae-myung, presidential candidate of the liberal Democratic Party (DP), on Saturday referred to People Power Party (PPP) presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo and former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who has also announced his candidacy, as going against the Constitutional order.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Lee's remarks came amid views that Kim, a former labor minister under the administration of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, and Han, who also served under Yoon, may merge their candidacies for the June 3 presidential election.
"It is largely predictable that anti-Constitutional forces destroying a democratic republic will form a coalition," the DP candidate said, when asked about such a possibility during an election campaign stop in the coastal city of Samcheok, some 190 kilometers east of Seoul.
"But they should look back on themselves on how the people will assess the forces that have ruined the Constitutional order," Lee said.
In a PPP primary that concluded earlier in the day, Kim won the conservative party's nomination to run for the upcoming election.
In his acceptance speech, Kim said he will establish a "strong solidarity with any forces to prevent the DP Lee Jae-myung from taking office."