The ruling Saenuri Party on Tuesday named candidates for parliamentary seats to be contested in next month's elections, including the party chief's two close confidants and excluding several veteran lawmakers.

The party's election nomination committee announced the last batch of the 26 candidates to receive party tickets to run in the April 13 general elections. The list includes Reps. Kim Sung-tae and Kim Hack-yong who are both close to Chairman Kim Moo-sung.

Yoon Sang-hyun -- a key member of the pro-Park Geun-hye faction and a former special political adviser to the president -- was excluded from the list of nominations, said Rep. Lee Hahn-koo, head of the party's nomination committee.

Yoon was at the center of a high-profile scandal when he was found to have used abusive language against Chairman Kim, saying that the chief should not get a party ticket.

Rep. Lee Jae-oh, a five-term lawmaker and considered an opponent of the pro-Park faction, also failed to receive the party ticket, according to the committee.

Rep. Lee previously served as the party's floor leader and is considered one of the closest confidants of former President Lee Myung-bak.

Hwang Woo-yea, a five-term lawmaker and former education minister, was nominated to a different constituency in Incheon, west of Seoul, Lee said.

The committee virtually wrapped up most of candidates for 253 seats of the 300-member parliament to be chosen through direct elections. The rest of the 47 proportional representation seats will be allocated to parties according to the numbers of votes they receive.

The committee said it will finalize whether to nominate the party's former floor leader Yoo Seong-min on Wednesday.

Yoo stepped down from his post in July 2015 after President Park publicly lambasted him for leading negotiations with the main opposition party on the passage of a parliamentary revision bill. (Yonhap)