Confirmed Nationwide Committee Meeting... Lee Jun-seok Files Additional Injunction to Ban Nationwide Committee Meeting (Comprehensive)

The Democratic Party's Standing National Committee and National Committee confirmed for the 2nd and 5th... Roadmap for Emergency Committee Launch on the 8th
Lee Jun-seok's Legal Team: "Party Charter Amendment Includes Retroactive Provisions"

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[Asia Economy Reporters Lee Ji-eun and Lee Hyun-joo] The People Power Party has finalized the Standing National Committee and the National Committee meetings scheduled for the 2nd and 5th to establish a new Emergency Response Committee, while former party leader Lee Jun-seok submitted an injunction request to the Seoul Southern District Court on the 1st to prohibit the holding of the National Committee meeting.

Lee's legal team stated in a press release that "the representatives filed an additional injunction to uphold the Constitution" and "to maintain the party's democratic basic order and protect the constitutional order."

The People Power Party decided to hold the Standing National Committee on the 2nd and the National Committee on the 5th, led by Vice Chairman Yoon Doo-hyun, replacing the resigned National Committee Chairman Seo Byung-soo, and to establish a new Emergency Response Committee by the 8th. The plan is to amend Article 96, Paragraph 1 of the party constitution, which defines the 'resignation of four Supreme Council members' as an emergency situation, and to approve this amendment at the Standing National Committee and National Committee meetings to form the new Emergency Response Committee.

However, the legal team pointed out that "this amendment arbitrarily defines 'emergency situations' and applies provisions with a dispositional nature retroactively," and criticized it as "an anti-democratic and anti-constitutional clause that seeks to finalize the party constitution amendment solely through the resolution of the National Committee, a minority representative body, without ratification by a party convention that gathers the democratic consensus of all party members."

They added, "The National Committee discussing this amendment has significant substantive and procedural defects as it does not gather the consensus of party members," and "the discussions from the decision of the prior injunction case until now are legally contradictory not only to the Constitution and the Political Parties Act but also to the People Power Party's own constitution."

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