Park Jumin: "No Issues with the Bill Adjusting Prosecution and Police Investigation Authority"

"Announcement of 4+1 System, No Issue with the Passage of the Police-Prosecutor Investigation Authority Adjustment Bill"
"Ministry of Justice's Deprosecution, a Key Task of Prosecutorial Reform"

Park Ju-min, Supreme Council Member of the Democratic Party of Korea. Photo by Yonhap News Agency

[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Heo Midam] Park Jumin, Supreme Council Member of the Democratic Party of Korea, stated on the 7th that "there will be no problem in passing the bill to adjust investigative authority between the prosecution and the police."

In a phone interview with MBC Radio's 'Kim Jong-bae's Focus,' Park said, "If the plenary session schedule is set, the 4+1 coalition that previously passed the Corruption Investigation Office Act and the Election Act is solid, so there will be no problem with the vote in the plenary session."

Regarding the postponement of the bill's submission to the 9th, he explained, "The handling of livelihood bills is very important. As the election approaches, it is realistically difficult to convene the National Assembly. Especially, if the pension law is not passed before January 13, there will be a gap where January pensions cannot be properly paid. To handle these issues, cooperation from the opposition party is necessary, so it was postponed."

He added, "If the plenary session is held on the 9th, the Liberty Korea Party will filibuster. After the filibuster on the adjustment of investigative authority between the prosecution and the police, naturally, the next step will be to hold a temporary session and proceed with the vote."

Park also mentioned the 'de-prosecutionization' of the Ministry of Justice. Regarding appointing a non-prosecutor as the head of the Ministry of Justice's prosecution bureau, he explained, "There is a task called the Ministry of Justice's 'de-prosecutionization.' Originally, the Ministry of Justice should oversee and control the prosecution, but since prosecutors have occupied key positions in the Ministry of Justice, there has been an evaluation that 'the prosecution has controlled the Ministry of Justice.' Therefore, the de-prosecutionization of the Ministry of Justice has been continuously discussed as a major task of prosecution reform."

He continued, "It was especially a campaign pledge of President Moon Jae-in and also appeared as an election pledge of many opposition presidential candidates. To reiterate, it is a task that has been discussed for a very long time. It has been recognized as a necessary task, and I also think so."

Earlier, the Democratic Party planned to hold a plenary session on the afternoon of the 6th to submit the remaining two bills on the adjustment of investigative authority between the prosecution and the police?the amendments to the Criminal Procedure Act and the Prosecutors' Office Act?as well as about 180 livelihood bills.

However, the Liberty Korea Party requested to withdraw the filibuster and postpone the plenary session on the condition that livelihood bills be prioritized, and the Democratic Party accepted this, postponing the confrontation between the ruling and opposition parties to the 9th.

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