Kwon Eun-hee: "Democratic Party's Intent is to Block with Current System, Public Harm Requires System Improvement"

Lee Jun-seok "If you want to express personal beliefs, leave the party immediately"
Kwon Eun-hee "People Power Party trying to maintain prosecutorial power and use it as a pocket marble"
"Democratic Party's intention is to block with current system, but public harm requires system improvement"

Kwon Eun-hee, Floor Leader of the People Party.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyun-joo] Kwon Eun-hee, floor leader of the People’s Party who expressed support for the legislation on 'Geomsu Wanbak (complete removal of prosecutorial investigation rights),' showed displeasure at Lee Jun-seok, leader of the People Power Party, who publicly suggested her resignation from the party. As a proportional representative member of the National Assembly, Kwon would lose her seat if she voluntarily leaves the party.

On the 21st, Kwon posted on her Facebook, criticizing, "The People Power Party, which tells me to leave the People’s Party because our positions differ?while the Democratic Party’s members leave to neutralize the Judiciary Committee’s agenda adjustment committee and the People Power Party is scheduled to merge?is like identical twins."

She then pointed out the reality that the two-party system in the National Assembly fails to give hope for the future to the people. She said, "Of course, the People Power Party is going a step further than the Democratic Party," adding, "There are places where the promised participation of the People’s Party in the city and provincial party nomination committees has not been properly fulfilled even before the ink on the merger agreement has dried, yet they are telling the legitimate floor leader of the People’s Party to leave."

Addressing the People Power Party’s opposition to the Geomsu Wanbak legislation, Kwon said, "If the Democratic Party’s intentions are suspicious, they should know that there are institutional responses such as police investigations, the establishment of a specialized investigation agency, and the activation of a permanent special prosecutor," adding, "Yet the People Power Party ignores legal and institutional responses and only engages in political conflict. It is suspected that the People Power Party also wants to maintain prosecutorial power as a marble in their pocket."

She continued, "It is the role of the National Assembly and its members to respond to the Democratic Party’s intentions with the current system and to prepare improvement measures for the public’s sense of victimization in the criminal justice system," and sharply stated, "If anything, I should be the one telling Leader Lee to stay quiet."

Earlier, at the Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly on the same day, Leader Lee said, "Before the ink on the merger agreement between the two parties has dried, Floor Leader Kwon reportedly used her position to attend a meeting of the four party floor leaders related to Geomsu Wanbak," and added, "If this is a way to express personal conviction, I hope she resigns immediately and does not participate in the merger."

Leader Lee pointed out, "In a situation where public anger over Geomsu Wanbak is high, attending a meeting related to Geomsu Wanbak under the name of the People’s Party and expressing opinions different from those of the People Power Party seriously undermines the spirit of the merger," and said, "Currently, within the People’s Party, Representative Kwon is not in a position to represent opinions on Geomsu Wanbak."

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