On March 9, the People Power Party held an emergency meeting of its lawmakers and agreed to pursue "jeol-yoon," a formal severing of ties with former President Yoon Suk Yeol.
At the meeting, the party debated shifting its policy direction and issued a resolution adopted in the names of all its lawmakers.
In the resolution, the party said, "We categorically oppose any calls for the political return of former President Yoon Suk Yeol. Neither South Korea nor the People Power Party can go back to the past. We will be reborn and, together with the people, move decisively into the future."
The resolution also pledged to stop behaviors that deepen intra-party conflict and to pursue broad unity, emphasizing that it will sever any words or actions that disrupt party cohesion or trap the party in past frames. "We will look only to the people and marshal all our capabilities," it said.
It added that restoring normal governance can begin only from the constitutional principle of checks and balances grounded in political equilibrium between the government and the opposition. The People Power Party pledged to stand with all citizens who agree to defend liberal democracy, block efforts to destroy the judiciary, and uphold constitutional values in response to what it described as the Lee Jae-myung administration's unconstitutional rampage.
Finally, the party said it would unite all citizens who care for and love the country to fight resolutely to protect the people's freedoms and vowed, "We will win the upcoming June 3 local elections."
