Opposition Pushes for Permanent Special Prosecutor... Choo Kyung-ho Criticizes as "Nazi-style One-party Dictatorship"

"If There Were a Nobel Prize for Crafty Lawmaking, Gaeddal Lawmaker Would Win"
Hwang Woo-yeo: "It Means Creating an Investigation Agency Directly"

Choo Kyung-ho, floor leader of the People Power Party, criticized the opposition party for attempting to revise the National Assembly rules to exclude the ruling party's share from the four special prosecutor candidates while pushing for the 'Chae Sang-byeong Special Prosecutor' to become a permanent special prosecutor, saying, "If there were an award for developing the most cunning tricks, the Democratic Party and the Gaeddal lawmakers would surely win it."

Hwang Woo-yeo, Emergency Response Committee Chairman of the People Power Party, is speaking at the Emergency Response Committee meeting held at the National Assembly on the 15th. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

At an emergency committee meeting held at the National Assembly on the 15th, Floor Leader Choo said, "The Democratic Party seems to be a group obsessed only with cunning tactics to cleverly evade the law." He added, "Last week, they said they would hold an impeachment hearing in the form of reviewing petitions without filing a presidential impeachment motion, and now they are pushing for the Chae Sang-byeong special prosecutor through a permanent special prosecutor system. There are talks about revising the National Assembly rules so that all four members recommended by the National Assembly to the committee that nominates special prosecutor candidates would be recommended by the opposition party, instead of the current balanced method where the ruling and opposition parties each recommend two."

Floor Leader Choo pointed out, "If the Democratic Party revises the National Assembly rules like this, it is not lawful but illegal and unconstitutional," and said, "Just as tax evasion that cleverly evades the law is not legal, holding an impeachment hearing by reviewing petitions, pushing for impeachment, and monopolizing the special prosecutor nomination rights by revising National Assembly regulations is unconstitutional, illegal, and a circumvention of the law." He continued, "Allowing such a revision of the National Assembly rules would make the law that appoints special prosecutors impartially unnecessary, and everything would be decided at the discretion of the Democratic Party, which holds an absolute majority. This is like the Nazi-style one-party dictatorship that led Germany to ruin in the past," criticizing the move.

He emphasized, "The Democratic Party’s push for a permanent special prosecutor and revision of the National Assembly rules clearly shows that they lack sincerity in uncovering the truth of the Chae Sang-byeong case," and added, "They have revealed their intention to exploit the pain of parents who lost their child for political strife to shield former leader Lee Jae-myung."

The Democratic Party is known to be considering using the permanent special prosecutor law, seeing a high possibility that the special prosecutor bill for Chae Sang-byeong will be discarded in a re-vote in the National Assembly after President Yoon Seok-yeol exercised his veto power on the bill on the 9th. The permanent special prosecutor law was introduced in 2014 and allows a special prosecutor to be activated immediately without creating a special prosecutor law. Since the permanent special prosecutor law is already enacted, President Yoon cannot exercise veto power over it.

Hwang Woo-yeo, emergency committee chairman, also said at the meeting that "The most fundamental core element in establishing a permanent special prosecutor is that the ruling and opposition parties recommend members without considering whether the majority is equal," and added, "If this is broken, the minimum neutrality collapses. They say they cannot trust the police investigation results reviewed by the investigation review committee with civilian experts, and in the end, they want to create an investigative agency that will produce the investigation results they desire."

Chairman Hwang said, "The United States abolished the special prosecutor law in 1999 after painfully realizing the huge harm caused by special prosecutors who cause political strife without anyone taking responsibility, and after the special prosecutor law was continuously politically abused and lost public trust due to excessive investigations and prosecutions," and added, "The Chae Sang-byeong case is currently under investigation by the High-ranking Officials’ Crime Investigation Office. Considering the abnormal election that led to the emergence of satellite parties and the prosecution led by the Democratic Party, it would be reasonable for the public to wait and see the investigation by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials as well."

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