Former PPP leader Lee Jun-seok Shares Plans to create his new party

Lee Jun-seok, a former leader of the ruling People's Power Party (PPP) who is preparing to launch a new party, criticized on January 1 that the PPP under a new emergency committee led by chairman Han Dong-hoon is reverting to the old Liberty Korea Party.

Speaking to reporters shortly after the New Year's Day ceremony at a conference room in Seoul Station in Yongsan-gu, Lee responded to the controversy over the failed verification of Min Kyung-woo, a former member of the PPP’s emergency committee, saying, "The things that could not come close to the party when I was the party leader are making moves to make the party revert to the old Liberty Korea Party again after reformative and conservative forces left.” He added, "If the PPP takes out the people's power, takes out Kim Jong-in, and takes out Lee Jun-seok from itself, it is no exaggeration to say that it is the old Liberty Korea Party."

Lee explained, "The PPP’s new emergency committee has been launched, but there is no reversal as shown in the New Year's poll. Rather, the party is responding poorly to the special prosecution law, so expectations for a new leadership are growing among those who remain in the PPP."

Lee visited the Seoul National Cemetery with about 100 participants who agreed to create a new party and held a New Year's ceremony to share their plans.

Meanwhile, Lee Nak-yon, a former leader of the Minjoo Party, reiterated his intention to launch a new party, saying, "Politics cannot be left as it is. We need to give people a new choice, not an alternative."

Lee held a New Year's greeting ceremony at Haengju Fortress in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. He visited the statue of General Kwon Yul and told his supporters, "Let's achieve great work this year with the sentiments of the people who fought for the country with the general."

Lee added, "This year, we must give new hope to the people in despair. And to do so, we must have a huge fight. It will be a battle between the forces that want to give the people new options and the forces that want to enjoy their vested interests by blocking their options.”

Lee also said, "We must move to a politics that produces something for the country and its people," adding, "We will replace incompetent politics with competent one. We will end corrupt politics and realize clean politics.”

Lee is expected to unveil his plans to create a new party later this week.

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