Justice Party on Park Geun-hye's Pardon: "De Facto Surrender... Allied with Conservative Establishment"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Koo Chae-eun] The Justice Party criticized the pardon of former President Park Geun-hye as "a declaration of alliance with the right-wing and conservative vested interests ahead of the presidential election, and a de facto surrender."

Yeo Young-guk, the Justice Party's General Co-Chair of the Election Committee, said, "Today, President Moon Jae-in abandoned solidarity with the citizens below and declared an alliance with the right-wing ahead of the presidential election."

Yeo added, "The president's responsibility in the era of the COVID-19 disaster must be directed from the bottom up, from beginning to end," and continued, "It is the president's duty to stand in solidarity with small business owners whose lives have collapsed, workers experiencing income instability, citizens who have lost their daily lives due to infection damage, and to care for healthcare workers' workplaces." She also criticized, "This is no different from the recent controversies over the glorification of Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan, and candidate Lee Jae-myung's behavior of cutting taxes for wealthy real estate vested interests."

Yeo stated, "Releasing a criminal, condemned by the Constitution, laws, citizens, and history of the Republic of Korea, without serving even half of half of their sentence, is a political decision made ahead of the presidential election," and added, "It is the final act of betrayal by the Moon Jae-in administration against the candlelight citizens and the spirit of the candlelight protests. We strongly condemn it."

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