People Power Party Leader Says There Will Be No Constitutional Revision Under Current Government

People Power Party floor leader Jeong Jeom-sik drew a firm line against constitutional reform, declaring in a National Assembly speech that “There will be no constitutional revision under this government.” His statement came one day after Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok said reform of the power structure could proceed as far as the public wanted.

Jeong accused the president of discussing a two-term presidency without saying that he would not seek another term or face trial. He asked whether constitutional reform was intended to extend the president’s term and delay legal proceedings, and accused those pursuing it of seeking personal benefit. He said he would not discuss constitutional revision with forces that had committed clear constitutional violations and sought private gain through reform.

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There will be no constitutional revision under this government.

He also attacked the government’s recent Cabinet nominations. Jeong described Justice Minister nominee Kim Seung-won as the head of a group seeking to cancel the president’s indictment and as someone linked to allegations of a new-drug fraud. He called Gender Equality and Family Minister nominee Yong Hye-in a symbol of privilege and unfairness. He said nominees Lee Hyeong-il and Hong Ji-seon had served as vice ministers responsible for policy failures.

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Are you trying to extend the term through constitutional revision and use it to delay the trial, or are you even using constitutional reform as a tool to erase your own crimes?

Jeong warned that the planned full abolition of prosecutors’ supplementary investigative powers would leave both the prosecution service and those powers gone by October, while the proposed Central Investigative Office had not recruited enough investigators. He said distorted judicial procedures would lead to inadequate investigations and public suffering. He demanded the government scrap its housing policies, called for a state probe and special counsel investigation into a single-stock leveraged ETF blamed for sharp Kospi swings, and labeled the government’s Honam semiconductor cluster plan “the worst corporate seizure committed by the government.”

He also demanded the immediate resumption of President Lee Jae-myung’s five trials and promised measures including restoring prosecutors’ supplementary investigative powers, abolishing inheritance and gift taxes between spouses, reviewing changes to early voting, expanding housing support for young people and newlyweds, ending reductions in old-age pensions based on earned income, and strengthening nuclear deterrence through possible U.S.-South Korea nuclear sharing and other measures.

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The worst corporate seizure committed by the government