與 “Special prosecutor on fabricated indictments, uncovers abuse of power… National power, recklessly suppresses”

Raising the legitimacy of the Special Prosecution Act ahead of the plenary session... Emphasis on ‘deleting the contents of the indictment cancellation’

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Pyeong-cheon and Choi Joo-seong = The Democratic Party of Korea emphasized the legitimacy and necessity of processing the bill, highlighting the fact that there is no content related to cancellation of indictments in the 'Special Prosecution Act on Manipulated Prosecutions (Plan)' adopted as the party's platform on the 5th.

At a policy coordination meeting held at the National Assembly on this day, Floor Leader Han Byeong-do criticized, “Even if all provisions related to cancellation of indictments are deleted, the People Power Party is pushing the (President) to erase the trial,” adding, “This is a reckless and unreasonable plan to hear only what they want to hear and see only what they want to see.”

Cheon Jun-ho, senior vice representative for floor operations, said, "This is legislation to uncover the truth about the Yoon Seok-yeol administration's suspicions of fabricated investigations and fabricated prosecutions and to correct the abuse of state power."

Senior Vice President Cheon criticized, “The People Power Party distorted the Special Prosecution Act as a bill to ‘save the president’ and even predicted a filibuster,” adding, “Who on earth is the People Power Party trying to protect?”

He continued, "The Democratic Party deleted all provisions related to the cancellation of indictments, and the subject of the investigation was not limited to the case of President Lee Jae-myung. We look into the entire targeted investigation by the Yoon Seok-yeol regime and political prosecutors, including the suspicion of employment of former President Moon Jae-in's son-in-law, the assassination of a civil servant in the West Sea, manipulation of statistics, leaks of THAAD secrets, and the Wolseong nuclear power plant incident."

Heo Young, Senior Vice Chairman of the Policy Committee, said, "The prosecution search and seizure of former CEO Lee Jae-myung was conducted 376 times, and each corporate card (use details) was searched and seized about 100 times," and asked, "Isn't there bound to be a lot of allegations of fabricated indictments against CEO Lee Jae-myung in the Special Prosecutor's Act?"

He then emphasized, “The President asked the National Assembly to remove the provision for cancellation of indictments, so we removed all of the provisions,” and added, “We only hope that the truth will be uncovered through a special prosecutor and that the court will make a just judgment.”

Rep. Park Joo-min emphasized on KBS radio, "There is no provision for special prosecutors to cancel indictments under their own authority. Even if the indictments are canceled, the (possibility) that it will be done by special prosecutors is zero."

Rep. Park explained, “If it is clearly revealed that it is a fabrication, (cancellation or dismissal of the indictment) is decided by the prosecutor who maintains the indictment of the case or by the court.”

Rep. Kim Young-jin explained on MBC radio, "The biggest problem, the cancellation of indictments, has been eliminated, and the special prosecutor verifies objective facts."

The Democratic Party is pushing for the passage of the Special Prosecution Act in the plenary session of the National Assembly this afternoon, but the People Power Party announced that it will use a filibuster (obstruction of lawful proceedings through unrestricted debate) if the Special Prosecution Act is submitted.