People Power Party Calls Jeong Sungho’s Resignation "The Signal Flare for President Lee Jaemyung’s Lame-Duck Period"

Dang Donghyuk: "A government afraid only of its loyalists, not the people"
Jung Jeomsik: "Defeat for the administration, total victory for the ruling party hardliners"

On July 25, the People Power Party launched a counterattack, calling Minister of Justice Jeong Sungho’s offer to resign amid the Democratic Party’s push to abolish supplementary investigative powers as party policy "the signal flare for President Lee Jaemyung’s lame-duck period."

Jang Donghyuk, leader of the People Power Party, is speaking at the 'From Regulation to Market, from Punitive to Rational' People Power Party Real Estate Policy Normalization Forum held at the National Assembly on July 24, 2026. Photo by Kim Hyunmin

Dang Donghyuk, leader of the People Power Party, posted on social media the same day, describing Minister Jeong’s resignation offer as “the final act of conscience from a witness to the scene of the crime,” and stating, “This is a government afraid only of its own loyalists, not of the people.”

He went on to stress, “The dismantling of the prosecution will inevitably lead to the collapse of the administration. At that point, there will be nothing left to ‘supplement’ with.”

Jung Jeom-sik, floor leader of the People Power Party, wrote on social media, “The Democratic Party adopting the abolition of supplementary investigative powers as its party line represents ‘defeat for the administration, total victory for the hardliners in the ruling party.’” He pointed out, “Judging from Minister Jeong’s resignation and the remarks by the Vice Minister of Justice at the Legislation and Judiciary Committee, it is now clear that the administration supported a more cautious approach regarding supplementary investigative powers.”

He added, “President Lee is not only failing to curb the ruling party’s extreme push to abolish supplementary investigative powers, but is also merely watching the hardliners in the Democratic Party for cues and being dragged along. This is because he will need the hardliners’ support to achieve future dismissals of public prosecutions.”

Regarding Minister Jeong, he remarked, “I highly appreciate his intent to uphold responsibility and conviction as minister. Compared to Kim Yongbum, the policy chief, who refuses to take responsibility for turning the KOSPI into a gambling den, or Minister of National Defense Ahn Kyubaek, who pressed ahead with the controversial merger of military academies despite unresolved allegations of his own desertion and public opposition, Minister Jeong has shown a more responsible attitude.”

Chief Spokesman Park Sunghoon stated in a commentary, “If Minister Jeong truly cared about justice in the judiciary, instead of cowardly ‘throwing in his resignation and walking away,’ he should have put his ministerial office on the line and publicly advised the President to exercise his veto power—he should have fought to the end. This is nothing more than a 'resignation political show'—lacking both cause and conviction.”

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