The People Power Party’s interim leader said his party will consider preparing a proposal on constitutional amendments and putting it to a national referendum at the time of the presidential election.

Kwon Young-se conveyed the information Monday during the party’s Supreme Council meeting at the National Assembly, saying his party will embark on the path to constitutional change.

Kwon said the recent presidential impeachment crisis has heightened the public’s desire for political reform. 

He added that the nation has witnessed the flaws of what he called the imperial presidential system, in which all the power rests with one individual, as well as the emergence of what he called the imperial National Assembly. 

The interim leader then stressed the need to revise what he called the country’s outdated Constitution, which was last amended in 1987, saying the proposed move is about redesigning the country’s national system. 

Kwon delivered the remarks a day after National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik proposed a national referendum on constitutional change, to be held concurrently with the presidential election.