Representative Kim Min-seok is speaking at the Mokpo City Regional Committee in Gwangju, Jeollanam-do on the afternoon of the 8th. Yonhap News 8·17 A debate continued within the party on the 9th over the proposal to elect the party leader at the Democratic Party of Korea's national convention using a preferential voting system. The National Convention Preparatory Committee did not accept the claim that the preferential voting system violated the party constitution and rules. In order for the preferential voting system to be finally decided, a resolution of the party's supreme committee is required.