People Power Party: "Special Prosecutor for Dropping Prosecution Will Be Pursued Again After the Election"

"Statement to Be Submitted to the Court if Prosecutor Park Sangyong Is Disciplined"

Joo Jin-woo, a lawmaker and chairman of the Special Committee to Block the Special Prosecutor Act for the Cancellation of Prosecution (Blocking Committee) at the People Power Party's Central Election Committee, stated on the 19th, "The push for the Special Prosecutor Act for the Cancellation of Prosecution, intended to eliminate President Lee Jaemyung’s own trial, has been temporarily suspended, but it will definitely move forward immediately after the election." He added, "We will mobilize the full strength of the party to block this."

At the first meeting of the Blocking Committee held at the National Assembly on the same day, Chairman Joo said, "There have been reports that Prosecutor Park Sang-yong will be severely disciplined in connection with the investigation into President Lee's North Korea remittance case, citing the omission of an investigation process confirmation form." He continued, "If disciplinary action is taken over one or two missing documents out of hundreds of thousands of pages of investigative and trial records, doesn't that actually mean that all the other documents were properly prepared and the investigation was conducted fairly?"

On the 19th, at the first meeting of the Special Committee to Block the Special Prosecutor Act for the Cancellation of Prosecution of the People Power Party Central Election Committee held at the National Assembly, Chairman Joo Jin-woo is speaking. Photo by Kim Hyun-min

He mentioned, one by one, the passage of bills such as the Supreme Court Justice Expansion Act, the Crime of Judicial Distortion, and the Judicial Petition System; the abolition of the Prosecutors’ Office; the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hui-dae; the disciplinary action against Prosecutor Park Sang-yong; and the withdrawal of appeals in the Daejang-dong and Wirye New Town development corruption cases. He stressed, "With inflation, exchange rates, and people's livelihoods all in crisis, should eliminating one’s own trial really be the country's top priority? I am convinced that if Prosecutor Park, who was disciplined by a court decision, returns to the prosecution, that will mark the immediate start of the Lee Jaemyung administration’s lame-duck period."

Regarding the disciplinary action against Prosecutor Park, the committee decided to respond collectively. After the meeting, Chairman Joo told reporters, "If Prosecutor Park is disciplined, I will go directly to the court to issue a statement urging the cancellation of the disciplinary action and will submit a petition to urge the court to make a sound decision."

He added, "I believe the Democratic Party’s decision to accuse 31 witnesses was a self-defeating move. At the very least, a conclusion must be reached in the perjury trials in order to properly judge the rights and wrongs related to this prosecution cancellation. Since the Democratic Party forced these accusations, we will press the prosecution to reach a conclusion quickly."

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