Na Kyung-won is considering being the Minister of Health

The Democratic Party immediately objected

The opposition party is immediately criticizing the new government as Yoon Seok-yeol's office is reportedly considering Na Kyung-won, a former lawmaker with four-term experience, as a candidate for the next health and welfare minister.

 

According to political circles of the ruling and opposition parties on the 22nd, President Yoon Seok-yeol put former lawmaker Na on the list of candidates for the welfare minister, which was compressed three times.

 

She is said to have experience in related fields by working at the National Assembly's Health and Welfare Committee in the past and has experience and expertise in the field of health and welfare, including an honorary doctorate in social welfare at Soonchunhyang University in July.

 

Having political power, such as serving as the floor leader of the Liberty Korea Party, the predecessor of the people's power, is also cited as the reason why former lawmaker Na is considered as the minister of welfare.

 

Former lawmaker Na herself shows a cautious position or denies it.

 

Regarding the appointment of the minister, former lawmaker Na is repeatedly answering in media interviews, saying, "There was no such thing at all," "There was no communication with the president's office," and "I didn't hear it." In response to this situation, politicians are speculating that it is a roundabout way of expressing their position to challenge the leadership of the people.

 

She was recently mentioned as a strong candidate for the next party leader and said she was considering whether to challenge for the party's leadership.

 

Na has recently been leading in several polls related to party leadership of the party.

 

Lee Soo-jin, floor spokesman of the Democratic Party of Korea, said, "The appointment of Yoon Seok-yeol should signal a personnel reshuffle, not an extension of the personnel disaster," adding, "President Yoon is reportedly considering former lawmaker Na Kyung-won as a candidate for the welfare minister." "It is disastrous to consider a person who ran as a candidate for Seoul mayor in the 2011 local elections and was criticized for bathing teenagers in front of reporters as welfare minister," she pointed out.

 

"President Yoon said at a 100-day press conference that the most important thing in the management of state affairs is the will of the people first and second," spokesman Lee Soo-jin said.

 

"All policies, people, and attitudes should be changed." It is the will of the people to reform personnel and completely change the stance of state administration," she said.