Prior to the inauguration of the Yun Seok-yeol government, the people’s power was defeated in the battle of ‘check-up (completely deprived of the prosecution’s investigative power)’ before the ‘victory of the presidential election’ was even gone. As Kwon Seong-dong, floor leader of the People’s Power, confessed, it was a “misjudgment”.
After accepting the ‘arbitration plan’ by National Assembly Speaker Park Byeong-seok, which is no different from the original bill of the Democratic Party of Korea, the People’s Power hastily demanded overturning the agreement and renegotiating as criticisms of a “political match” grew.
Chairman Park’s arbitration plan is to abolish the prosecution’s direct investigation authority within the term of the Moon Jae-in administration, leaving only the corruption and economy areas ‘temporarily’ among the prosecution’s six major crimes (corruption, economy, public officials, elections, defense projects, and catastrophe). contained the content.
Since the prosecution’s investigative powers in the remaining two fields will be permanently deleted once the Serious Crime Investigation Agency is launched, it is a fact that the ‘examination and completeness’ will be realized as the Democratic Party’s original plan is only for a grace period.
Minority leader Kwon, who signed this agreement, seemed to overlook the seriousness of the public opinion, and initially protested, “If we had gone to the end with a hard-line fight against the original bill of scrutiny, nothing would have been achieved as in the past.” He continued to explain to the effect that “we had no choice but to avoid the ‘worst outcome’ against the 180-seat Democratic Party.”
However, sharp criticism of “selling the party and the country” continued. In particular, as the power of the people showed the ‘determination’ to completely block the inspection even before the day before the agreement, the public opinion as well as the front-line prosecutors continued to call for a ‘complete rejection of the mediation plan’.
To make matters worse, suspicions arose that Kwon arbitrarily pushed to accept the arbitration proposal without ‘sufficient and detailed prior communication’ with President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol, raising the issue of ‘resignation’.
An official from People’s Power said, “Kwon (President Kwon) is Kwon, and Yoon (Elect Yoon) must have understood, Yoon is Yoon, and Kwon will take care of it. Officials)’, so they must have thought that it was converged.
Only after recognizing that the public backlash had intensified over the weekend, floor leader Kwon asked the Democratic Party to ‘renegotiate’ three days after the agreement was reached. It was a proposal to add public officials and election crimes to the corruption and economic crimes that were temporarily left in the prosecution.
However, since the renegotiation of floor leader Kwon was also based on the ‘Park Byeong-seok arbitration plan’, it is evaluated that it will eventually lead to a conclusion that is no different from the Democratic Party’s oversight and overhaul law. Furthermore, the demand for a belated reconsideration of the people’s power was ultimately seen as ‘overturning or breaking the agreement’, providing only a justification for the Democratic Party’s enforcement of the bill.
Even if the power of the people mobilizes sit-ins and filibusters (unlimited discussions) to block the passage of the bill in the plenary session, the people’s view is that “the people’s power is also one team in the end.” The Justice Party, which had been torn between the Democratic Party and the people’s power over the overhaul bill, also turned to the Democratic Party after the ruling and opposition parties reached an agreement. In the end, the power of the people has lost both cause and truth.
Bae Jin-kyo, president of the Justice Party, said on the radio on the 27th, “The Justice Party’s position is that the consultation bill mediated by the Speaker of the National Assembly should be handled by the National Assembly in April.” If necessary, now we have no choice but to think about stopping the filibuster.”
The power of the people also seems to have cut itself off from cooperating with the ‘Democrats within the Democratic Party’, who expressed their beliefs at the Democratic Party at a political disadvantage. Lee Sang-min, Park Yong-jin, Jo Eung-cheon, Lee So-young, and Kim Byeong-wook, who had raised their voices with difficulty within the Democratic Party, also overshadowed the “exposure” of the independent lawmaker Yang Hyang-ja, who opened up a new phase in the struggle with the Democratic Party. It is a bonus to voluntarily bury Rep. Min Hyung-bae’s ‘disguise evasion show’, which shocked the people by overturning the agreement.
A former prosecutor-general lawyer evaluated, “In terms of the strength of the people, it was a game to win even if we were snatched up while resisting to the end.”
