Debate on 'Oh Se-hoon's second trial problem'... “Court pollution and public election law must be revised”

On the 5th, the Democratic Party of Korea held a roundtable discussion with experts from the party's legal committee on the topic of 'problems with Oh Se-hoon's appeal court ruling' at the National Assembly and claimed that "the court is polluted."

Representative Park Joo-min, who participated in the Seoul mayoral candidate race in the last local election, said at a discussion meeting that day, "The candidate who followed the law suffers losses, and the candidate who evaded the law becomes safe. This cannot be called a fair election. We must clearly establish the principle that we do not grant impunity for detours using public opinion polls."

He mentioned that Kim Han-jeong, a businessman known as Mayor Oh's supporter, gave money to political broker Myeong Tae-gyun, and criticized, "It is a donation that saves the candidate the cost of spending on people helping him," and "This is a ruling that exempts the execution of (illegal) political funds."

He added, “We need to register the results of unpublished public opinion polls with the National Election Opinion Survey Deliberation Committee and make it mandatory to register public opinion poll organizations to bring them into the monitoring and supervision system.” He added, “We are planning to propose a revision to the Public Official Election Act. I hope it can be passed within this year.”

In her greeting, Secretary General Han Jeong-ae said, "This ruling is like a 'side door' that opens a new path that shows how money follows," and criticized, "It has created a plan to degrade the political fund law itself by reducing the power of evidence or excluding the acceptance of evidence."

Seo Young-kyo, chairman of the Legislation and Judiciary Committee of the National Assembly, took aim at Seoul High Court Chief Judge Koo Hoe-geun, who found the appellate court not guilty, and emphasized, "I think the court is polluted. The court is strange, and the Supreme Court Cho Hee-dae is also suspicious and strange."

Law Committee Chairman Yang Bun-nam also said, “The judge arbitrarily made a ruling that deviated from the rules of experience and logic based on assumptions,” and added, “Mayor Oh himself created the political fund law, but he violated this law and was found not guilty.”

Attorney Moon Geon-il, who presented as a presenter, said, "There is a clear difference between saying that the statement is difficult to believe and that there were no facts in the statement. Even the facts that became the premise of the judgment are contradicted within the judgment. The Supreme Court should overturn the appellate court ruling and remand the case."