Yoon Heesook: "We Must Protect the Party from the 'Yoon Again' Faction... Supports Innovation Candidate"

Yoon Heesook Steps Down as Head of Yeouido Institute
Voices Support for Innovation Candidate to Protect Party from "Yoon Again" Faction

Yoon Heesook, chair of the People Power Party's Innovation Committee, expressed her support on August 12 for an innovation candidate running for party leadership, stating, "We must protect the party from the 'Yoon Again' faction," referring to supporters of former President Yoon Suk Yeol.

On her social media account that day, Yoon announced, "I am stepping down from my position as head of the Yeouido Institute, which is required to maintain neutrality during the leadership race," making her stance clear.

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She emphasized, "We must focus on the fundamental conflict within the People Power Party's convention," diagnosing it as "a clash between innovation candidates who seek to break from the party's problematic past and move closer to public sentiment, and the 'Yoon Again' faction, which aims to further distance the party from the people and privatize it."

She continued, "In a Yeouido Institute poll conducted on the 5th and 6th of this month, only 23% of respondents said that the People Power Party's reflection and apology regarding the 12·3 Martial Law were sufficient," pointing out, "This is the current public sentiment and the standard by which the public judges us."

Yoon criticized, "Nevertheless, the party leadership cannot avoid responsibility for ignoring the Innovation Committee's apology proposal and the advice to expel Jeon Hangil and hold accountable the lawmakers who brought him into the party's inner circle." She added, "A bigger problem is the 'Yoon Again' candidates who claim that no one died due to martial law and vow to reinstate former President Yoon, attempting to seize party leadership through agitation and disorder that go against public sentiment."

Yoon stressed, "They were responsible for the downfall of the administration, and now they are trying to ruin the last remaining party as well," emphasizing, "We must protect the party from them."

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