A campaign to identify a new leader of the minor Justice Party has kicked off.

At the National Assembly on Monday, former policy committee chairman Cho Seong-joo and former chief spokespeople Lee Dong-young and Jeong Ho-jin announced their candidacies for the leadership post, all conveying similar sentiments emphasizing the party’s reform.

This comes as the Justice Party has been unable to recover from a crushing defeat in June's local elections in which it failed to win a single seat and has since suffered from record-low approval ratings.

Meanwhile, former vice leader of the party Kim Yun-ki and former party leader Lee Jeong-mi are slated to announce their candidacies tomorrow.