Democratic-Justice, Push to Exclude Ruling Party from 'Kim Geon-hee Special Prosecutor' Recommendation Body

President's Party Withdrawal Still Disallows Ruling Party's Special Prosecutor Recommendation, Revision Under Review

The Democratic Party of Korea and the Justice Party are pushing to revise the contents of the bill related to the "Special Investigation Law on First Lady Kim Geon-hee," which they pledged to pass at the plenary session on the 28th, so that even if the president leaves the party, the People Power Party cannot have the right to recommend the special investigator.

Jinseongjun, Senior Deputy Floor Leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, and Jang Hyeyoung, Senior Deputy Floor Leader of the Justice Party, submitted a request to designate the Kim Geonhee and 5 Billion Club Special Prosecutor Act as a fast-track agenda item to the National Assembly Secretariat in Yeouido, Seoul on the 26th. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

According to the Democratic Party and the Justice Party on the 26th, Park Ju-min, the senior deputy floor leader of the Democratic Party, and Bae Jin-kyo, the floor leader of the Justice Party, met at the National Assembly that morning to discuss revising the wording of the special investigation bill on First Lady Kim. Earlier, the Democratic Party had announced that it would pass the special investigation laws on First Lady Kim and the Daejang-dong 5 Billion Club suspicion as scheduled at the plenary session on the 28th. The bill was jointly proposed by the Democratic Party, the Justice Party, and the Basic Income Party.

According to the currently submitted "Special Investigation Law on the Stock Price Manipulation Suspicion of Kim Geon-hee of Deutsche Motors," the right to recommend the special investigator lies with "negotiation groups other than the negotiation group to which the president belongs and non-negotiation parliamentary parties." The Democratic Party and the Justice Party are considering revising the exclusion criteria for negotiation groups with the right to recommend the special investigator to "negotiation groups to which the president currently belongs or has belonged." In this case, even if President Yoon Seok-yeol leaves the party, the People Power Party will not have the right to recommend the special investigator.

There is also a proposal to grant the recommendation authority only to non-negotiation groups. This is interpreted as an intention to "completely exclude" the People Power Party from recommending the special investigator.

They are also considering expanding and codifying the scope of the investigation. Within the Democratic Party, there are claims that, in addition to the suspicion of stock price manipulation of Deutsche Motors, the bill should also explicitly include suspicions of preferential treatment in changing the terminus of the Seoul-Yangpyeong highway involving the Kim family and suspicions that First Lady Kim received an expensive luxury "Dior" bag as a gift.

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