Miae Lim Abruptly Withdraws from Supreme Council Race: "Delegates, Please Choose Yong Kim"

Mi Ae Lim, candidate for Supreme Council Member of the Democratic Party of Korea, withdrew her candidacy on August 16, urging support for candidate Yong Kim.

On this day, Lim announced her resignation from the Supreme Council race via social networking services (SNS), saying, "Please help form a leadership that will reliably support the Lee Jae-myung administration." Currently ranked seventh among the eight candidates, Lim called for strategic voting in favor of Yong Kim and other preferred candidates in the upcoming delegate vote and remaining ballots.

Lim stated, "Only the delegate vote remains now. The election of Minseok Kim as party leader appears certain. Given that, the composition of the Supreme Council becomes crucial. We need a leadership team that can firmly back the success of the Lee Jae-myung administration."

She continued, "There must be at least three Supreme Council members who can work closely and collaboratively with party leader Minseok Kim."

Mi Ae Lim, Candidate for Supreme Council Member of the Democratic Party of Korea Yonhap News

Lim appealed to the delegates who would be voting the next day, saying, "I earnestly ask you to choose Yong Kim." She added, "Please ensure the stable election of candidate Mihwa Seo, and make Sunwon Park the Chief Supreme Council Member."

Yong Kim, after finishing the regional primaries for Gyeonggi and Seoul party members with voting rights, is trailing the cutoff 5th place candidate by only 2,312 votes, a margin of 0.15 percentage points. Regarding this, Yong Kim said on the same day, "Because the gap with the 5th place candidate narrowed to just 2,312 votes or 0.15 percentage points as a result of rights party member voting, the results of the delegate vote and the public opinion poll could ultimately change the outcome. I will do my best until the very last vote is cast."

As of this date, the accumulated votes for the Supreme Council were as follows: Minhee Choi with 259,744 votes (16.91%), Sunwon Park with 255,008 votes (16.60%), Mihwa Seo with 233,245 votes (15.18%), Sungyoon Lee with 214,118 votes (13.94%), Minsu Han with 211,479 votes (13.77%), and Yong Kim with 209,167 votes (13.62%).

Lim expressed her gratitude to party members who supported her vision of transforming the Democratic Party of Korea into a truly national party, stating, "I would like to offer my deepest thanks to all fellow party members who listened to and supported my proposal. I especially struggle to find words for the party members from Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province, who came to every rally at dawn, offering their enthusiasm and support."

She concluded, "My challenge in this party convention ends here, but the challenge of the Daegu and North Gyeongsang members to build a national and victorious Democratic Party of Korea must continue." She added, "Although I am withdrawing, I will wholeheartedly support the new leadership and find my role in helping the Democratic Party of Korea become a true national party."

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