National Powers "Trying to cover up 'Shincheonji Gate' by opening secret rooms... Forced investigation must be conducted"

On the 8th, the People Power Party urged the investigative authorities to initiate a mandatory investigation, saying that the Democratic Party of Korea was trying to cover up the suspicion of group membership of Shincheonji members during the national convention by 'secret viewing' by some top members.

Senior floor spokesperson Choi Soo-jin said in a commentary, "Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok apologized three times for the 'Shincheonji suspicions' at the national convention, and then sealed the investigation report for private viewing for a week."

He said, "Compared to the razor-sharp blade aimed at the People Power Party, the double standards of the Lee Jae-myung administration are truly shocking. In December of last year, President Lee ordered the formation of a joint investigation headquarters of the prosecution and police, dusted off suspicions of religious collusion against the People Power Party for eight months and indicted 32 people." He added, "The opposition party was branded by mobilizing all of the state's investigative power, and the ruling party's suspicions of Shincheonji infiltration were attempted to be covered up with a few words of apology and closed-door inspection." “Do it,” he criticized.

He continued, “If the prosecutors and police, who only confided in the opposition party for eight months, remain silent in front of the ruling party’s ‘Shincheonji Gate’, it is a blatant dereliction of duty and a show of power,” and urged, “The Democratic Party should immediately begin a mandatory investigation into the suspicions of Shincheonji using the same standards as the investigation into the People Power Party.”

Spokesperson Cho Yong-sul also said in a commentary, "The Democratic Party is trying to cover up the situation by processing it through internal review, but this is not something that will end with the claims of the parties and their own investigation," and demanded, "Whether it is a special prosecutor or an investigative agency, it must be uncovered in detail based on objective data and evidence."

He said, "This controversy is an issue that Representative Kim Min-seok raised directly from his days as a candidate to after his inauguration as party leader. If the suspicions raised by Representative Kim about the 'secret three-party alliance between Shincheonji, anti-myeong, and separatist forces' are not true, then Representative Kim cannot avoid responsibility for spreading false information to disqualify former Representative Chung Cheong-rae from the national convention. If he announced it with the purpose of disqualifying former leader Chung Cheong-rae from being elected, he must be strictly considered as to whether he violated the Political Party Act."

He continued, "On the contrary, if the suspicions of Shincheonji's systematic political intervention and solidarity within the Democratic Party are true, the Democratic Party should apply the unreasonable suspicions raised against the People Power Party to themselves," and urged, "As they have claimed collusion between politics and politics as the reason for disbanding the party, they should also apply strict standards to their suspicions."