United Future Party: "Democratic Party Uses Audit Chief's Remarks as a Pretext to Intimidate... Treating Them Like Subordinates"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] Regarding the ruling party's criticism of Choi Jae-hyung, the head of the Board of Audit and Inspection, who said, "Not everything the president orders must be done," accusing him of "denying government tasks," the United Future Party criticized it as "an incomprehensible threat."

Hwang Gyu-hwan, deputy spokesperson of the United Future Party, said in a statement on the 27th, "The Democratic Party, which praised Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl as the 'right person for prosecutorial reform' to the point of exhaustion, suddenly branded him a traitor when he began investigations into the Cho Kuk incident and the Ulsan mayoral election interference allegations."

He added, "Even the first head of the Board of Audit and Inspection under the Moon Jae-in administration, who was auditing the nuclear phase-out policy, was targeted for his remark, 'Not everything the president orders must be done,' and faced an incomprehensible threat for 'denying the legitimacy of government tasks.' This attitude treats the head of the Board of Audit and Inspection, a constitutional institution that should guarantee independence, as if dealing with a subordinate, using common-sense remarks as a pretext."

Deputy spokesperson Hwang referred to the Democratic Party's backlash against the Supreme Prosecutors' Office's Prosecution Investigation Deliberation Committee's recommendation to suspend investigation and non-prosecution, as well as the Democratic Party's negative response to the National Assembly Budget Office's disapproval of the third supplementary budget, criticizing, "Having become a dominant ruling party, it seems they are only satisfied when the legislative, judicial, and executive branches all conform to their tastes."

He said, "In the late Eastern Han Dynasty of China, due to the factionalism of 'party unity and suppression of dissent' (黨同伐異), where people with the same opinions formed factions and suppressed others regardless of right or wrong, intellectuals eventually abandoned the imperial court, leading to the fall of the Eastern Han. Now, those who speak frankly for the Moon Jae-in administration and those who work according to principles and convictions are gradually disappearing."

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