Joo Ho-young: "Democratic Party's Underhanded Move to Relocate National Assembly... Cannot Support"

"Choo Mi-ae, Special Activity Expenses Investigation Will Backfire"
"What Are You Afraid of?" on Wolseong Nuclear Plant Evaluation Manipulation Probe
"The Ruling Party Changes Its Stance... Enemy of the Rule of Law"

Joo Ho-young, floor leader of the People Power Party, is attending the Emergency Response Committee meeting held at the National Assembly on the 9th and delivering opening remarks. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] Joo Ho-young, floor leader of the People Power Party, stated on the 9th that regarding the Democratic Party of Korea's plan to relocate the National Assembly to Sejong City, leaving only the plenary session hall and the Speaker's office in Seoul, “While I agree with establishing a few standing committees to operate in order to resolve administrative inefficiencies, I cannot support moving everything wholesale like this.”

At the emergency countermeasure meeting held at the National Assembly that day, Floor Leader Joo said, “Even if the relocation proceeds, a few standing committees should be operated on a trial basis beforehand to verify the effectiveness.”

He added, “We also promised a branch office of the National Assembly in Sejong City as a regional pledge during the parliamentary elections, but that is only a branch office,” and criticized, “The relocation of the National Assembly must resolve constitutional issues and gain public consent, yet the Democratic Party is quietly pushing the relocation as a loophole.”

Regarding Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae’s order to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Inspection Department to investigate the details of special activity expenses paid and allocated to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office and various prosecution offices, he said, “Ordering an inspection of special activity expenses now to find faults is a petty act,” and “Many predict it will be a self-inflicted wound or own goal.”

He continued, “It is well known to those familiar that the Ministry of Justice is reclaiming special activity expenses that should not be used and is using them by loopholes,” and pointed out, “If the Ministry of Justice took back and used the prosecution’s special activity expenses, how is that different from the previous issue of special activity expenses being handed over to the Blue House?”

Regarding the prosecution’s investigation into allegations of manipulation of the evaluation of the Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1, Floor Leader Joo said, “Why are they destroying as many as 444 documents and defending this? Seeing the Democratic Party’s hypersensitive reaction, the public seems to suspect there is a big problem.”

On the Democratic Party’s effective abolition of the rule that imposed nomination disadvantages on elected officials who resigned mid-term to run for office, limited to metropolitan mayoral elections, he said, “Changing the rules case by case is the enemy of the rule of law and democracy,” and urged, “I ask the public to recognize that this is how the Democratic Party treats the Constitution and party rules, and to reaffirm that we must never entrust these people with anything.”

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