Seocho-dong Rally Citizens 'Jogeuk Suhodang'... "Relentless Violence Against Reformist Minister"

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Cheol-eung] Citizens supporting former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk have launched a provisional party called the 'Jo Kuk Suho Party'.

According to the founding declaration of the Jo Kuk Suho Party Preparatory Committee (Founding Committee), announced on the 10th by the National Election Commission, "Recently, we have witnessed the ruthless violence inflicted by the corrupt and evil political prosecution on the minister and his family, who were trying to carry out reforms under the people's mandate."

As the party name suggests, the main purpose of the party's founding is support for former Minister Cho and prosecution reform. The Founding Committee claimed, "The people could only watch in despair as about 100 prosecutors, who live off the national treasury, mobilized and committed inhumane atrocities for months, even searching the diaries of the children, just because the minister led reforms."

They added, "It is urgent to reform the political prosecution that ignores the people's mandate and wields prosecutorial power like a reckless swordsman."

Furthermore, they stated, "We clearly diagnose this as an indiscriminate war waged by conglomerates, media, prosecution, and reactionary political groups rooted in anti-national pro-Japanese forces, colluding against the democratically elected government, and we intend to take the lead on the front line against them."

Park Jung-kyung, representative of the Jo Kuk Suho Party Founding Committee, told Asia Economy in a phone interview, "Most of the initiators are ordinary citizens who participated in the candlelight rallies in Seocho-dong," adding, "We gathered the founders mainly through online meetings, and the movement is gradually spreading. We aim to create a political party of pure ordinary citizens, not existing politicians or celebrities."

Former Minister Cho Kuk stated on his Twitter on the same day, "I am not participating or involved in any party founding activities. I am focusing on taking care of my family, who have been devastated by the prosecution investigation, and proving the unfairness of the prosecution's indictment in court based on facts and law."

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