Kim Byung-min: "No Pushback Expected on Ruling Party Innovation Committee's Proposal for Mass Amnesty"

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"Innovation Committee's General Amnesty Proposal Was Appropriate"

Kim Byung-min, a Supreme Council member of the People Power Party, predicted on the 30th that the so-called 'general amnesty' proposal by the party's Innovation Committee would be approved. He argued that since Representative Kim Ki-hyun promised to give full authority to the Innovation Committee, the first agenda item would not be rejected.

On the same day, Kim appeared on CBS Radio's 'Kim Hyun-jung's News Show' and said, "When we brought Innovation Committee Chairman In Yo-han, some people said they wouldn't come, but we earnestly asked them to come, didn't we?" He added, "Personally, since Representative Kim said he would give full authority to the Innovation Committee, I believe the messages that came out of here should naturally be respected."

Earlier, the People Power Party's Innovation Committee emphasized party unity at its first meeting on the 27th and decided to prioritize discussing a general amnesty for disciplinary subjects such as former Representative Lee Jun-seok and Mayor Hong Joon-pyo.

Kim Byung-min, Supreme Council Member of the People Power Party. [Photo by Yonhap News]

Regarding this, Kim said, "When the Innovation Committee was first launched, there were doubts about whether it could really innovate well, and opposition parties like the Democratic Party even used quite insulting language to belittle Chairman In Yo-han's Innovation Committee. So I kept asking people to look forward to the first innovation proposal," adding, "Even while saying that, I was worried whether the first innovation proposal would come out well, but seeing this content, the first thought that came to me was that Chairman In Yo-han is really doing well."

He continued, "The Innovation Committee's activities involve having an external innovation chairman like In Yo-han come in to heal and overcome internal conflicts that existing members of the People Power Party cannot handle," and evaluated, "From that perspective, they proposed the most appropriate first agenda items to us."

Regarding the backlash from the amnesty subjects such as former Representative Lee and Mayor Hong, he said, "Because extreme conflicts have continued within the party, I thought again that this was a difficult task to solve, but still, when I go out to the field, the thing I hear most from the people is to please stop fighting," adding, "The ruling and opposition parties should not fight, but when internal unity is achieved first, then national unity will follow."

He added, "Currently, within the People Power Party, even if we try to talk and listen to each other, the conflicts have already deepened, so it is not easy," and said, "Chairman In Yo-han is coming from outside to unify and innovate the party and says he will listen together, so it will not be easy to keep rejecting that."

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