S. Korean Ruling Party Leaders to Resign Next Week

South Korean ruling party leaders said Thursday they will resign en masse next week amid a growing factional feud, South Korea's News . 
All the members of the Supreme Council, its top decision-making body, will join party chairman Lee Jung-hyun when he quits next Wednesday as earlier promised, they said. 
Since parliament voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye on Friday, anti-Park members in the party stepped up their calls for the resignation of the leadership dominated by Park loyalists. 
They initially refused to quit but changed their minds under growing pressure and calls for party reform. Rep. Chung Jin-suk, the floor leader, resigned earlier this week, taking responsibility for the impeachment and party feud. 
Saenuri will hold an in-house election for the floor leader and chief policy maker on Friday. 
From the anti-Park group, four-term lawmaker Rep. Na Kyung-won is running for floor leader and three-term lawmaker Rep. Kim Se-yeon for policy panel chief. 
The pro-Park faction fielded Rep. Chung Woo-taik and Rep. Lee Hyun-jae as candidates for floor leader and policy chief, respectively. 
The election is seen by many to play a decisive role in the fates of the two factions in the post-impeachment period. 
During their last-minute campaigns, Park loyalists emphasized the party's unity, whereas the dissenters called for full-fledged reform. 
"We will embrace reasonable comments from the dissenters, and seek to create a new conservative government," Chung Woo-taik told South Korea's News Agency (Yonhap). Chung also vowed to bring balance to the party's ethics committee. Party leaders earlier sought to increase the number of Park loyalists in the panel. 
Na, however, said the party is facing its biggest crisis, adding Saenuri's fate depends on the in-house race. 
"The party is under a dangerous situation. Saenuri must not be privatized by a certain political group, and seek change and harmony to set conservative values straight," Na said.

Source: QNA