April 7, 2025
Seoul – Two major political parties in South Korea are rapidly changing to election mode after former President Yoon Suk Yeol evacuated from his office on Friday.
The constitution stipulates that successors will be elected within 60 days of the president's removal office – meaning that the parties have decided on candidates in less than two months, form a team and enter the campaign.
The power to declare a presidential election date depends on the current president, or in this case acting president Han Duck-soo.
Han is expected to announce the election date at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Election Day will be widely expected around June 3, considering its overlap with other holidays.
With the presidential election, constitutional reforms have also restored seats.
National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-Shik said the amendment to the last amendment of the 1987 constitution should be held simultaneously.
“I suggest we amend the constitution the same day we elect the next president,” the spokesperson said.
According to the 1987 Constitution, the South Korean president served for five years and there was no possibility of re-election. The amendment proposed by the Speaker will give the president four years and potentially run for a second.
“We can no longer delay the most significant reform of the country's power structure,” Wu said.
The People's Power Party lost its ruling party due to Yoon's removal and held a plenary meeting on Sunday, gathering all members of the party to discuss the upcoming elections.
Unlike the Korean Democratic Party, Lee Jae-Myung, the leader of the Korean Democratic Party, has won the party's presidential nomination campaigner than other potential candidates, and the People's Power Party has not yet had a great contender.
Lee has not yet renounced his position as leader of the party and has officially launched a presidential bid.
The Democrats continued their offensive against the Yuan Dynasty on Sunday, calling on the People's Power Party to expel the former president.
“The People's Power Party wants to keep moving forward like Yoon Suk Yeol. But if the party is really sorry, the party will immediately refuse and deport the president.”
“If the People’s Power Party does not recognize the responsibility for the suffering it has caused to the people, it should not have a place in the presidential campaign.”
The Democratic Secretary-General added that Yoon's removal should not bring brakes to the former president and his wife Kim Keon Hee.
Also on Sunday, small liberal parties made a call for a pan-free alliance with the People's Power Party.
The small rebuilding party, founded by former Democratic Attorney General Moon Jae-In, calls for an open primary election involving all Liberal candidates.
“To ensure victory over the conservative group, it is absolutely necessary to conduct a liberal alliance,” the party said in a statement on Sunday.
The Democrats did not respond to the demands of small parties.
