The ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol met with People Power Party leaders Friday and told them he hopes the party wins the presidential election to choose his successor.
People Power Party leaders Reps. Kwon Young-se and Kweon Seong-dong met with Yoon at his residence in Yongsan, central Seoul, late Friday, hours after the Constitutional Court upheld Yoon's impeachment, thereby removing him from office.
According to the People Power Party's chief spokesperson Rep. Shin Dong-uk, Yoon told the party leaders that he hoped the party would "win the next presidential election."
Shin quoted the former president as saying he was "grateful and also sorry to the people," and that although he is leaving, he "would continue to wish the country the best."
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