People Power Party: "Democratic Party talks 'presidential impeachment' whenever they speak... Do they have any intention to cooperate?"

Park Hong-geun's First Policy Speech Criticized
"Please Step into the Arena of Cooperation Without Partisan Prejudice"

Park Hong-geun, floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, is delivering a negotiation group representative speech at the plenary session held at the National Assembly on the 20th. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Hyun-joo] Regarding Park Hong-geun, the floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, mentioning the impeachment of the president in his negotiation group speech on the 20th, the People Power Party criticized, "The Democratic Party uses impeachment as a scapegoat whenever they open their mouths. We want to ask if they truly have the will to cooperate."

Heo Eun-ah, the chief spokesperson of the People Power Party, released a statement that day saying, "The Democratic Party warned of the president's impeachment as if they had forgotten the stern judgment of the people in the last presidential and local elections."

Heo said, "Approval ratings are an important barometer to check public sentiment in real time. Therefore, the People Power Party and the Yoon Seok-yeol administration sincerely apologize for the recent decline in approval ratings and the disappointment caused to the public, and are carefully considering better governance."

He added, "However, the current approval ratings do not mean that the stern public sentiment that thoroughly judged the Democratic Party in the last presidential and local elections has changed. The Democratic Party should refrain from arrogant political disputes and work together to overcome the current crisis."

He continued, "The Democratic Party calls itself a human rights party, but it seems to have given up on being one. The essence of the incident that Floor Leader Park called a 'pro-North Korea smear' and a 'political planned investigation' is 'the people's human rights.' The late Lee Dae-jun was shot by North Korean soldiers in the West Sea, but the Democratic Party and the Moon Jae-in administration fabricated excuses such as 'gambling addiction' to cover it up and manipulated it as a 'defection to the North.'"

He also said, "The North Korean defector fishermen, who are clearly citizens of the Republic of Korea under the constitution, left a written statement of 'intention to defect,' but were branded as 'heinous criminals' and forcibly repatriated to the North. The public also witnessed the 'human rights violations' scene where the defector fishermen tried not to cross the Military Demarcation Line at Panmunjom, even harming themselves."

Heo emphasized, "In the current economic crisis, the Democratic Party's recognition that 'people's livelihood comes first' is welcome. However, for the ruling and opposition parties to solve the economic crisis through cooperation, the Democratic Party must revise its perception of the issues. The People Power Party and the Yoon Seok-yeol administration will not let go of the thread of cooperation." He also said, "We will continue under the 'hall of public opinion,' the National Assembly, from solving the current economic crisis to concerns about the future of the Republic of Korea, such as low birth rates and population extinction. We sincerely hope the Democratic Party will also come to the table of cooperation without partisan prejudice for the great cause of 'reviving people's livelihood' and the 'future.'"

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