Kwon Seong-dong: "People Power Party a criminal group?…Lee Jae-myung himself is a criminal law textbook"

Kwon Seong-dong: "Lee is on trial for 12 charges across 8 cases"
On Democratic Party policies: "Soulless C-grade knockoffs"
Kwon Young-se: "Ignoring Korea's future to heed the KCTU's wishes"

Kwon Seong-dong, floor leader of the People Power Party, fired back at Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, who on the 20th criticized that "the People Power Party is almost turning into a criminal organization," saying, "Leader Lee himself is like a criminal law textbook."

At an emergency meeting held at the National Assembly that day, Floor Leader Kwon responded to Leader Lee, saying, "Leader Lee, who has four prior convictions, is currently on trial in five courts for 12 charges across eight cases. They say you see what you want to see; on what grounds does he talk about a criminal party?"

Earlier, Leader Lee appeared on MBC's Baekbun Debate the previous day and claimed, "The People Power Party, once called conservative, has now almost become a criminal group," adding, "This means the Democratic Party must take on the realm of reasonable conservatism."

Kwon Young-se, Emergency Response Committee Chairman of the People Power Party, is speaking at the Emergency Response Committee meeting held at the National Assembly on the 17th. 2025.2.17 Photo by Kim Hyun-min

Floor Leader Kwon also said, "Leader Lee claimed that the crime of spreading false information under the Public Official Election Act exists only in South Korea, but it is present in several U.S. states, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, and other advanced countries," adding, "Leader Lee is spreading another falsehood to avoid the crime of spreading false information. He is covering lies with more lies."

He continued, "In this world, the things that grow longer because of lies are Pinocchio's nose and a criminal's sentence," and pointed out, "Leader Lee should not make the mistake of escalating greater trouble through lies."

Regarding Leader Lee's description of the Democratic Party as centrist conservative, Floor Leader Kwon criticized, "He himself once called the U.S. military 'occupying forces,' and the party mainstream engaged in anti-establishment activism during their days as student activists, so talking about the right wing is contradictory."

On Leader Lee presenting policies such as the Special Act on Semiconductors, inheritance tax reduction, and pension reform as Democratic Party policies, Kwon said, "The Democratic Party is pretending to be Santa Claus, distributing stolen goods as if they were great reforms," adding, "The Democratic Party removed the exemption clause for the 52-hour workweek in the Special Act on Semiconductors, adjusted tax rates in inheritance tax, and excluded structural reforms in pension reform. The Democratic Party's copying of conservative policies is nothing more than soulless 'C-grade knockoffs.'"

Kwon Young-se, emergency committee chairman of the People Power Party, also joined in, saying, "Even including the exemption clause for the 52-hour workweek in the Special Act on Semiconductors, the Democratic Party is ignoring South Korea's future to heed the wishes of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions," and added, "No matter how much Leader Lee talks about growth and takes pro-business steps, or how much the Democratic Party shouts that it is centrist conservative rather than progressive, which citizen would believe that in this situation?"

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