Kim Ki-hyun on Yoon Kwan-seok's Arrest: "Lee Jae-myung, Let's Pledge to Waive Immunity from Arrest"

Kim Ki-hyun, Leader of the People Power Party [Image source=Yonhap News]

On the 6th, Kim Gi-hyeon, leader of the People Power Party, sharply targeted Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, saying, "Let's meet now and sign the pledge to give up parliamentary immunity together."

On the same day, Kim criticized on Facebook, "Will the Democratic Party stubbornly refuse to give up parliamentary immunity and insist that investigations into corruption crimes like money envelopes are 'opposition oppression' and try to endure?" Returning from his vacation last week, Kim launched an offensive against Lee using the case of Representative Yoon Kwan-seok, who was arrested on the 4th over the 2021 party convention money envelope allegations.

Regarding Yoon's arrest, Kim stated, "The judge acknowledged that there was sufficient evidence of criminal charges and that the nature of the crime was serious," adding, "Despite the gravity of the matter, the Democratic Party, which abused parliamentary immunity to reject the arrest motion for Representative Yoon in the National Assembly, should take political responsibility and publicly apologize to the people."

He continued, "It is absurd that they still cannot move beyond the level of distributing money envelopes to buy votes at the party convention and repeatedly retreat while insisting they are 'progressive,'" and criticized, "Hiding behind parliamentary immunity and shouting 'opposition oppression' is the height of hypocrisy."

Regarding Independent Representative Lee Seong-man, who was also subject to an arrest warrant but had it dismissed, Kim said, "The 19 Democratic Party lawmakers involved in the money envelope scandal will likely have even more sleepless nights."

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