'Opposition Leading Candidate and Election Alliance' Jo Guk Innovation Party to Hold All-Member Vote on Presidential Election Strategy

Approval by Vote Over Two Days, 16th?17th
"Focus on Ending Political and Legal Internal Conflict"

The Joguk Innovation Party has decided to finalize an election strategy that fully supports the leading opposition candidate without selecting its own candidate through a party-wide vote.

According to a press release on the 15th, the Innovation Party will seek approval for a presidential election strategy centered on an electoral alliance with the leading opposition candidate through a lottery-based delegate and sovereign party member electorate on the 16th and 17th.

Kim Sun-min, Acting Party Leader of the Party for National Innovation, is speaking at the Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul. Photo by Yonhap News.

Previously, through the party affairs committee and others, the Innovation Party decided not to field its own presidential candidate but to support the leading opposition candidates such as those from the Democratic Party of Korea. A party official explained, "This is a strategic choice prioritizing the complete end of the internal conflict and an overwhelming regime change by forces defending democratic constitutional governance."

The party-wide vote will be conducted online over two days from 8 a.m. on the 16th to 3 p.m. on the 17th. The electorate can be confirmed on the Innovation Party website until 6 p.m. on the same day.

Kim Seon-min, Acting Leader of the Innovation Party, said, "The Innovation Party will devote all its efforts politically and legally to ending the internal conflict," adding, "We ask sovereign party members and delegates to understand the party's anguish and determination regarding the 'electoral alliance' and to actively participate in the vote."