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At the center of this controversy sparked by Rep. Park Jie-won is the recently announced political party approval rating index. As a result of a survey conducted by Chowon C&I at the request of Straight News, the Democratic Party recorded an approval rating of 40.4% and received a report card showing a reversal within the margin of error by the People Power Party, which received 41.6%. Rep. Park warns that this reversal in approval ratings is more than just a change in numbers, it is a strong signal that the Democratic Party is losing its leadership in politics. He poured out sharp criticism, saying that the party's vitality was at an end, as the leadership remained silent despite being aware of this crisis. It is pointed out that the complacency of the leadership, which ignores the situation rather than internal unity at a critical time when the fate of the party is at stake, is actually making the situation worse.

Representative Park made an unprecedented demand for the current leadership, especially Representative Chung Cheong-rae, to immediately resign and declare not to run for the next national convention. This is an extension of the ‘personal reform theory’, which states that the party can regain public trust only when the leadership shows a responsible attitude. He emphasizes that even if the leadership protests that they are not at fault or feels wronged, the only solution is to comply with the voice of the people in the current situation where public sentiment is turning away. The current decline in the Democratic Party's approval rating is not just a policy failure, but is putting strong pressure on the leadership to give up vested interests and serve in white under the perception that it is the last warning sent by the people.

The impact of the decline in approval ratings is not limited to party approval ratings. Rep. Park expressed concern that President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating for state affairs was also leaving behind the glory of the past when it was close to 70%, and that a 'dead cross' phenomenon was emerging in which negative evaluations outpaced positive evaluations. In particular, a survey by the Korea Social Opinion Institute (KSOI) showed that the president's approval rating plummeted by 9.4 percentage points, falling to 50.4%, putting a red light on the overall administration of government. President Lee himself seemed to be aware of the severity of public sentiment, and even though he was on a tour of Europe, he apologized to the public through social media and expressed his intention to take a low-key stance. Rep. Park strongly urges that the Democratic Party should not close its eyes and deny reality as it is doing now, as the president's success is directly linked to the party's victory.

The deepening factional conflict within the party ahead of the upcoming national convention in August is also a key point of concern for Rep. Park. He criticizes the party for being buried in internal fights and heading down a path of mutual destruction at a time when it should have been able to find an opportunity to turn things around after the local elections. He emphasized that politics is not a zero-sum game where the other person's misfortune becomes your happiness, and emphasized the urgent need to improve the structure of the Democratic Party rather than gloating over the results of the People Power Party's floor leader primary. In a political situation where there will be no major elections for the next two years, the sense of crisis that failure to support the president's successful administration of state affairs will inevitably lead to defeat in the general election and the next presidential election is deeply embedded in his remarks.