Kim Young-Bae, acting President of MDP and chief of Election Management Committee (EMC) of the party stated on 11th, for candidate Rhee In-Je who used expression of the `extreme left`, `a puppet` to candidate Roh Moo-hyun is slandering of a candidate or personal abuse¡° and we called upon candidate Rhee officially and asked him to control.
Chief Kim warned at a press conference, saying, if candidate Rhee ignores the demands of EMC and continues slandering steadily, there is no option but to take up punishment inevitably as violating the rule of Primary.
However, he avoided concrete answers on the concrete punishment.