5-term Gangwon Gangneung Kwon Seong-dong
4-term Gyeongnam Yangsan Kim Tae-ho
The next floor leader election of the People Power Party will be a two-way contest.
On the 10th, the People Power Party announced that Representative Kwon Seong-dong and Representative Kim Tae-ho have registered as candidates for the floor leader election.
Kwon Seong-dong, a member of the People Power Party, is talking with Na Kyung-won at the plenary session held at the National Assembly on the 10th. Photo by Kim Hyun-min
Kim Tae-ho, a member of the People Power Party, is heading to the funeral hall of the late Lee Sang-deuk, former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, set up at Seoul Asan Medical Center in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 24th. Photo by Jo Yong-jun
Five-term Representative Kwon represents Gangneung, Gangwon Province. Representative Kwon served as the first floor leader of the People Power Party under the Yoon Seok-yeol administration and immediately succeeded as the emergency committee chairman when then-party leader Lee Jun-seok was vacated in 2022.
Four-term Representative Kim currently represents Yangsan, Gyeongnam Province. He accepted the party's request to run in the fiercely contested Nakdong River Belt in the April 10 general election, moving his constituency. Representative Kim served as the 32nd and 33rd governor of Gyeongnam Province.
The method for selecting the floor leader has not yet been decided. Senior spokesperson Kwak Gyu-taek said to reporters after an emergency party meeting the day before, "It has not yet been decided whether the floor leader will be elected by vote or by acclamation among the candidates." The new floor leader will be elected on the 12th.
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