Ko Min-jung, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea. [사진 = 국회사진기자단]In addition, Democratic Party lawmaker Ko Min-jung criticized President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol’s insistence on a ‘national referendum’ in relation to the ‘Prosecutor-Elected Prosecutor’s Office’ (completely deprived of investigative powers), saying, “Please put it in a referendum from before the Blue House.”
Rep. Ko made this statement on his Facebook page on the 28th, sharing an article titled “I am deeply sorry for the referendum proposal for the extra-constitutional Prosecution Normalization Act on the part of President-elect Yoon” written by Rep. Kim Young-bae of the same party.
Assemblyman Koh said, “If you want to push the law recklessly and ignore the law, there are various first-class security documents including the National Security Council (NSC). do,” he claimed.
The article shared by Assemblyman Koh contained the main content that the referendum law was invalid as it lost its effect along with the Constitutional Court’s decision to be inconsistent with the Constitution.
In this article, Rep. Kim said, “President Moon Jae-in has urged the National Assembly to revise the unconstitutional referendum law so that the constitutional amendment can take place simultaneously with the June 13, 2018 local elections.” “I can’t help but laugh at the brazenness of Yoon-elect, who refused to amend the referendum law for the sake of it, and proposed a referendum without a legal procedure to prevent the advancement of the prosecution law four years later.”
He added, “Article 72 of the Constitution provides that important policies related to foreign affairs, defense, unification and other national security can be submitted to a referendum,” he said. Or it is just an extra-constitutional claim,” he added.
The National Election Commission made a statement the day before that it was ‘impossible’ to the review of Yoon-elect’s ‘examination and complete referendum’.
In response, Jang Je-won, the elected chief of staff, met with reporters in front of the office of the transition committee in Tongui-dong this morning and said, “The Election Commission is a consensus system.
When asked if he had reported the referendum on the referendum to President-elect Yoon, Chief Secretary Jang said, “I haven’t done it yet.”
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