People Power Party Postpones Floor Leader Election by One Day... Now Set for June 10

The People Power Party has postponed its scheduled floor leader election by one day, announcing that it will now be held on June 10.

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Former floor leader Song Eon-seok said that after a private meeting with preliminary floor leader candidates Kim Do-eup, Sung Il-jong, and Jeong Jeom-sik in the National Assembly’s floor leader’s office that afternoon, they decided to make this change.

After the meeting, Assemblyman Sung told reporters, "We have decided to delay the floor leader election schedule by one day, so it will be held at 10 a.m. on June 10. Although the party constitution does not specifically apply to the floor leader election, we also received a request to provide mobile voting opportunities to lawmakers who are overseas on business trips, and we agreed to review this request."

Previously, the People Power Party announced under the name of Chairman Jang Dong-hyuk that they would accept floor leader candidate registrations until 5 p.m. that day, and that voting would take place at 10 a.m. on June 9.

Within the party, there was criticism that immediately after former floor leader Song resigned on June 5, the sudden announcement of the floor leader election schedule was intended to help the old mainstream pro-leadership faction, specifically Assemblyman Jeong, win the post.

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