Kim Min-soo: "No Leadership Without Followership" – PPP Must Rally Behind Jang or Perish

Описание: Eight months after Yoon Suk Yeol's April 2025 impeachment and removal for his December 2024 martial law declaration, the People Power Party (PPP) is a fractured fortress under new leader Jang Dong-hyuk, a staunch Yoon loyalist elected in August 2025 by a razor-thin 0.54% margin over Kim Moon-soo.

In this impassioned December public speech—amid internal sniping from pro-impeachment holdouts like Han Dong-hoon—Supreme Council member Kim Min-soo urges the base to embrace "followership" as fiercely as leadership: back Jang's hardline path against Lee's Democratic supermajority, or risk total irrelevance.

He blasts past betrayals—the 18 PPP lawmakers who joined the unanimous impeachment vote—and demands accountability from those who "lost" yet won't shut up, framing unity as the party's lone shot at resurgence.

Kim's call echoes the PPP's post-trauma identity crisis: with Lee's coalition dominating the Assembly and pushing reforms on prosecution, media, and security laws, the opposition's 107 seats feel like a lifeline in a storm. Polls show conservatives at 32%, but infighting—fueled by Yoon visits and "Yoon Again" chants—alienates centrists, risking electoral wipeout in 2026 locals.

This isn't pep talk; it's survival math for a party twice burned by its own. Societies watch because when opposition eats itself, democracy tilts toward one-party rule— a warning that loyalty isn't blind, but without it, the watchdogs starve.

If followership means swallowing past mistakes for future fights, when does unity become surrender to the wrong side?

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