The Democratic Party of Korea, which is pushing for the Kim Gun-hee independent counsel law, has announced that it will drastically reduce the number of investigations and submit amendments including the so-called "third party recommendation" method.
Ahead of the National Assembly's plenary session on the 14th, it seems that the special prosecutor's passing strategy has changed somewhat.
The ruling party has announced a general meeting of lawmakers to discuss the special inspector, but some predict that it will not be easy to reach an agreement within the party.
I'm connecting you with a reporter from the National Assembly. Reporter Kim Dayeon!
Please take a closer look at the key contents of the amendment of the special prosecutor Kim, who unveiled the Democratic Party today.
[Reporter]
The existing Kim Special Prosecutor Act includes 13 suspicions as the subject of investigation, but the amendment includes allegations of involvement in the manipulation of Deutsche Motors' stock price,
The key is to drastically reduce the subject of the investigation due to suspicions such as nomination intervention and manipulation of public opinion involving Myung Tae-kyun, who is of great public interest.
He also said he would accept a method in which a "third party," not an opposition party, recommends a special prosecutor, which is also a method proposed earlier by Han Dong-hoon, the leader of the People's Power, over the Special Prosecutor Act on Chae Sang-byung.
It is interpreted as an intention to pressure the ruling party by pointing out that the subject of the investigation is ambiguous and abstract, and by accepting the method proposed earlier by representative Han.
It seems that the intention is to draw more votes from the ruling party than the last re-voting, so let's listen to the Democratic Party leadership's remarks at the meeting.
[Park Chan-dae / Floor Leader of the Democratic Party of Korea: If Han and the power of the people act at the level of the public and reject public sentiment this time again, they will collapse with Yongsan, Kim Gun-hee and Yoon Seok-yeol. Don't miss your last chance.]
The amendment, which was in the 'review' stage until yesterday, took off this morning in a closed meeting.
The official position of the ruling party has not yet come out after the disclosure of the amendment, but
Kim Jong-hyuk, the supreme council member of the People's Power
, pointed out at the morning meeting that the Democratic Party's amendment is to confess how shameless the independent counsel law they proposed was.
Floor leader Choo Kyung-ho also announced the proposal to exercise the president's right to demand reconsideration, and we will listen to the remarks.
[Choo Kyung-ho / People's Power Floor Leader: We firmly oppose the anti-constitutional bad independent counsel bill, and we plan to strongly suggest the president's right to request reconsideration immediately if the Democratic Party unilaterally pushes ahead with it.]
[Anchor]
In the meantime, the ruling party has announced a general meeting of lawmakers to discuss the special inspector, so when will it be held?
[Reporter]
Yes, the plan is to hold a general meeting of the members on the 14th, when the opposition party announced the plenary session.
The special inspector system is an independent body of the presidential office that inspects the president's relatives, including the first lady, and is nominated by the president when the National Assembly recommends candidates.
Representative Han Dong-hoon became a hot topic when he publicly mentioned it on the 23rd of last month, and there were many differences such as "I'm doing good to the Democratic Party" and "The party negotiation strategy is shaken," which seemed to spread to internal discord within the party.
However, it seems that President Yoon Suk Yeol has opened the door for discussion at a recent press conference, saying that he will definitely appoint him if he receives a recommendation from the National Assembly.A key representative of
told YTN that negative public opinion surrounding Mrs. Kim has yet to fall out, stressing the need for a reform measure, namely a special inspector.Representative
has also repeatedly expressed his willingness to push ahead, so let's listen to his remarks.
[Han Dong-hoon / Representative of People's Power: We have more to do. Rather than talking about the procedure (like a vote), I will say that our party will move in the direction of implementing what we promised to the people.]
However, negative public opinion remains as well.
In a phone call with YTN, a first-term lawmaker also explained the internal atmosphere that many lawmakers are worried that all kinds of reports that came into the special inspector could be used to attract public opinion.
However, no matter what the conclusion is, there is a consensus that at least a split in the general meeting of lawmakers should be prevented from being divided by a vote for or against, and we will also listen to the related remarks.
[Yoon Sang-hyun / National People's Power Congressman (YTN Radio 'News Fighting Bae Seung-hee'): Voting provides a starting point for opening the door to impeachment. Didn't I take a closer look at it during the past Park Geun Hye administration because it's in that position that division calls for impeachment? That's why we should refrain from voting.
As such, the calculation method is complicated ahead of the general meeting of lawmakers, and as the first trial sentence of Democratic Party Chairman Lee Jae-myung is only four days away, he seems to be focusing his firepower on related offensives.
The ruling party plans to hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to repeatedly urge the court to broadcast the first trial's ruling live and discuss future countermeasures.
[Anchor]
The ruling and opposition parties launched a consultative body today, but the opposition parties did not participate, right?
[Reporter]
Initially, the goal was to launch a " ruling and opposition parties" consultative body that requires all of the ruling party, the opposition party, the medical community and the government to participate, but it raised the anchor with the opposition party and some medical community absent.
Kim Sung-won, a member of the People's Power who attended as the ruling party's representative, told reporters after the meeting that he would reach meaningful results by the end of next month.
At the closed meeting, the issue of the return of the resignation major was mentioned, but it was found that the increase in medical school in the 25th grade was not discussed.
The ruling party again urged the opposition to join, saying it believes that the Democratic Party is in good faith as it brought up the consultative body first.
In a media interview, Park Joo-min, who headed the Democratic Party's Special Committee on Medical Disruption, insisted that a change in the government's attitude should be premised, saying that the room for discussion on the 25th-grade quota should be left open.
The consultative body plans to hold a small meeting every Wednesday starting this week and a general meeting at 2 p.m. on Sunday, but for the time being, the consultative body is expected to proceed in the form of a "tourism."
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