One Month Since the Launch of the 'Manipulated Indictment Special Committee'... Tensions Peak Between Ruling and Opposition Parties

Ruling Party: "Prosecution of Investigators in Daejangdong Case"
People Power Party: Protests Against "Pressure to Withdraw Indictment"

Tensions are running high as the ruling and opposition parties clash over the interim results of the "Special Committee for the National Investigation on the Allegations of Political Prosecution and Manipulated Indictment under the Yoon Sukyeol Administration," which marks one month since its launch.

On the 19th, at the National Assembly, Seo Younggyo, chairperson of the Democratic Party's briefing session under the Special Committee for the National Assembly Investigation on Allegations of Political Prosecutors' Fabricated Indictments under the Yoon Seokyeol Administration, explained the details of the Daejang-dong case hearing. Photo by Yonhap News

On April 20, the special committee held its ninth plenary session to discuss matters such as requesting additional witnesses and reference persons to appear. The Democratic Party plans to further pursue allegations of evidence fabrication by calling relevant witnesses to a comprehensive hearing scheduled for April 28.

Members of the ruling party on the special committee held a press briefing at the National Assembly over the weekend after conducting hearings last week on the Daejangdong and Wirye cases, as well as the case involving former Deputy Director Kim Yong of the Democratic Research Institute.

Park Sungjun, the ruling party secretary of the special committee, stated, "In order to hold those involved accountable and to uncover the truth, we must proceed with a special prosecution."

The special committee's investigation covers seven cases: the Daejangdong scandal, the Wirye case, the case involving former Deputy Director Kim Yong of the Democratic Research Institute, the Ssangbangwool remittance to North Korea case, the statistics manipulation case, the shooting of a public official in the West Sea, and the alleged false reporting defaming Yoon Sukyeol.

The People Power Party argued that pressuring for the "withdrawal of indictment" against President Lee Jaemyung is tantamount to confessing guilt. Cho Gwanghan, Supreme Council member of the People Power Party, stated at the party's Supreme Council meeting at the National Assembly on the morning of April 20, "The original purpose of a parliamentary investigation is to satisfy the public's right to know and to correct wrongdoings in state affairs by uncovering parts concealed by those in power. This parliamentary investigation, disguised as such, is the exact opposite of its intended purpose—a manipulation of state affairs."

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