“This is an attempt to ‘sword wind’ Yoon Seok-yeol’s intervention in the general election using the prosecution.”
“It’s a political show that uses vain articles to attack.” (People’s Power, Rep. Jang Je-won)
The ruling and opposition parties clashed head-on at the National Assembly Legislative and Judiciary Committee held on the 6th to ask an urgent question on the ‘suspicion of accusation’ of former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol. The ruling party continued intensive fire, saying, “Ex-president Yoon tried to interfere in last year’s April 15 general election through an accusation.” The opposition judiciary committee members, including a large number of People’s Power lawmakers active in the former President Yoon’s camp, said the allegations were “nonsense news like ‘Jirashi’ (private information magazine) reported by an internet media” and “Yoon Seok-yeol’s printing season 2” got it right
Minister of Justice Park Beom-gye, who attended the Judiciary Committee on the same day and announced the policy of “joint inspection between the Ministry of Justice and the prosecution,” said, “If a proper investigation is insufficient, I think we should consider switching to an investigation system.”
○ 與 “Critique of the opposition middle-class leader” ノ “Political show in vain”
Assemblyman So, a former prosecutor, said, “I remember the Chowon overhaul case (conspiring the illegal election in 1992). will,” he slammed. He said, “Former Saenuri Party floor leader Yoo Seung-min (about former President Yoon) said terrifyingly that it was ‘a crime against the constitution by privatizing the public power of the Prosecutor General’. “It’s not the words of the Democratic Party leader,” he pointed out. Democratic Party lawmaker Lee Soo-jin, who used to be a judge, said, “If the (suspicion) is true, it is highly likely that it will fall under serious crimes such as abuse of power, violation of the Personal Information Protection Act, leakage of confidential information in public service, and violation of the Public Official Election Act.” incident,” he said.
Opposition judiciary members refuted the allegations as baseless. In particular, National Power of People Kwon Seong-dong, Jang Je-won, Yoon Han-hong, and Yoo Sang-beom, who belonged to the Yun Seok-yeol camp or are helping the camp, took full action to defend the former president.
Rep. Kwon Seong-dong compared the allegation to the ‘Kim Dae-up case’, which raised suspicions about the military service corruption of the son of Grand National Party candidate Lee Hoi-chang during the 2002 presidential election. The DNA of the Democratic Party’s political craft came from that time,” he said.
Rep. Yoon Han-hong, an opposition member of the Judiciary Committee, pointed out, “The Minister of Justice is here with a nonsensical news like Jirashi. A nerve war broke out between the ruling and opposition parties over the attendance of Rep. Choi Kang-wook of the Open Democratic Party, who was listed as the accused in the accusation letter of the alleged indictment of the accusation. Rep. Choi said, “The people’s power to help former President Yoon, members of the Judiciary Committee can also be parties.” As the controversy continued, he left the conference room saying, “If it’s necessary for me to leave, I will accept it.”
○ Step by step public rebuttal 尹
The Yun Seok-yeol camp issued a press release on the day, four days after the ‘suspicion of accusation, misunderstanding and truth’, and divided the allegations into 10 items, saying, “(The report) cannot access the substantive truth, and the author of the accusation and It was a negative report that did not reveal the source.” He also criticized it, saying, “It reminds me of the ghosts of the ‘screen manipulation’ incidents in 1999 and 2002.” Camp said, “If you look at the contents of the accusation, there are many expressions that are too crude and unreasonable to be considered written by the prosecutor. It seems highly likely that it was written by a civic group or a third party.” He continued, “In the first call with News Bus on the 1st, Rep. Kim Woong of People’s Power (who was suspected of delivering the indictment to the party) mentioned that the accuser was ‘the person who drafted the (indictment) was himself’. Considering that, it is in line with the truth that the writing of the complaint is viewed as Kim Woong or a third person.”
Camp also said, “The complaints contain cases with different personalities all at once. “If you report a case of violation of the Public Official Election Act and a case of defamation at the same time, the investigation cannot be carried out promptly as the overall investigation cannot be concluded until the end of the investigation,” he said. Regarding the allegations of interference in last year’s general election, which the ruling party insists on, “When a complaint is received, it takes several to tens of days to distribute the case, so even if the opposition party makes a complaint, the result cannot be released before the April 15 general election.” false incitement.”
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