The People Power Party will stage a rally outside the legislature for the first time in six years. It plans to ratchet up its fight against the administration before the Chuseok holiday.
On the afternoon of the 21st, the People Power Party will hold a "public rally condemning oppression of the opposition and dictatorial politics" at Dongdaegu Station. It will be the first time in about six years that the People Power Party has held a large-scale rally outside the legislature since it gathered in Gwanghwamun in Jan. 2020 to oppose the revision of the Public Official Election Act that included the semi-mixed-member proportional representation system.
At the rally, it is expected that more than 50,000 people will gather, with Daegu and North Gyeongsang party chapter heads each bringing 300 party members, Busan, Ulsan, and South Gyeongsang chapter heads 200 each, and the greater Seoul area 50 each. At this rally, the People Power Party is expected to voice opposition to the installation of a special court division for insurrection cases being pursued by the government and ruling party, to prosecution reform, to special counsel investigations, and to calls for Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae to resign.
Following the Daegu rally, the People Power Party plans to intensify its fight against the administration before the Chuseok holiday. On the 25th, it will hold an on-site Supreme Council meeting in Daejeon, and on the 27th, it is also considering holding a large rally in Seoul. Starting in Busan, moving through Daegu and Daejeon, and heading up to Seoul, it plans to continue a hard-line fight against what it calls the unilateral governance of state affairs by the government and ruling party.
Inside the National Assembly, it is also toying with the option of an unlimited filibuster (a legal obstruction of proceedings through unlimited debate). The idea is to stage filibusters on all bills not agreed upon by the ruling and opposition parties to block the ruling party's unilateral legislation. Under the National Assembly Act, a filibuster can last only 24 hours, so it cannot stop the Democratic Party, which holds a majority, but it aims to highlight that passing a single bill takes 24 hours and to publicize the unfairness of the ruling party's "legislative runaway."
This simultaneous inside-and-outside strategy is said to reflect the will of Representative Jang Dong-hyeok. On the 20th, Jang held a press briefing and said, "We will gather in Daegu with our party members and the public to strongly condemn the Democratic Party of Korea and to strengthen our resolve to block this outrageous takeover of the judiciary and the establishment of a one-man dictatorship."