'Lee Eun-jeong, Justice Party Lawmaker, Sent to Prosecution on Charges of Violating Public Official Election Act'

Eunju Lee, Justice Party Member [Image Source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] The police have forwarded Justice Party lawmaker Lee Eun-joo to the prosecution with a recommendation for indictment on charges of violating the Public Official Election Act.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Intelligent Crime Investigation Unit announced on the 21st that they sent Lee Eun-joo, a Justice Party lawmaker accused of violating the Public Official Election Act by campaigning in the party primary as the policy director of the Seoul Metro Union, to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on June 29 with a recommendation for indictment.

Last November, the Seoul Metropolitan Election Commission judged that Lee, who was a union official at the metro corporation, was a person prohibited from election campaigning under the Public Official Election Act, which bans public officials from campaigning in party primaries, and filed a complaint with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on November 5 of last year.

The prosecution then instructed the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency to investigate the case.

In a statement issued in March while she was a candidate, Lee's side explained, "According to the Central Election Commission's interpretation, full-time employees of the corporation are allowed to campaign under current law, and even if it is interpreted that they cannot campaign, there is a very high possibility that the Constitutional Court will rule the relevant legal provision unconstitutional." Lee was elected as the 5th proportional representative candidate of the Justice Party in the 21st general election.

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