"If you agree, leave the party." Even with the warning...Signs of a split in the ruling party?

2025.01.08. PM 8:19
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It is estimated that six and four members of the People's Power who voted in favor of the Special Prosecutor for Insurrection Act and the Special Prosecutor for First Lady Kim Act, respectively.

Even though the leadership even told them to leave the party if they did not follow the party's theory, a significant number of departure votes came out, so internal tensions are increasing.

Reporter Kang Min-kyung organized it.

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198 out of 300 lawmakers voted for the "insurrection independent counsel law" that returned to the National Assembly.

If only two more votes were in favor, the bill could have crossed the National Assembly threshold.

[Won-Sik Woo / Speaker of the National Assembly: Out of the 300 total votes, 198 votes, 101 votes for wealth, and 1 vote for abstention]

This is why the People's Power leadership failed to laugh even though it succeeded in blocking the Special Prosecutor Act as the party argued.

Assuming that all 192 members of the pan-opposition camp agree in the re-voting, at least six people in the independent counsel law for civil war and at least four people in the law for Kim's independent counsel have voted in favor of the ruling party, that is, to leave.

When it was found out that the floor leadership even recommended a lawmaker who expressed his approval to leave the party, the party became even more confused.

[Kwon Seong-dong / People's Power Floor Leader: If it's difficult to be with the party, we can't be with the same party, so I recommended that you seriously consider leaving the party.]

Critics point out that the leadership's super-strong force did not work, but rather provided only a justification for minority lawmakers to publicly protest, and that the central power of the people has weakened.

[Kim Sang-wook / People's Power: If you're driven by the act and even asked to defect, I think this is a kind of witch hunt and a kind of meccaism.]

It is also a time bomb from the perspective of the people that the second execution of President Yoon Suk Yeol's arrest warrant is on the countdown.

While some pro-Yoon-gye lawmakers have predicted that they will gather at Hannam-dong's official residence again, there are many criticisms about this.

[Kim Jae-seop/CBS Radio 'Kim Hyun-jung's News Show'] I think it is very inappropriate for ruling party lawmakers to appear as if they are defending the president of Yoon Suk Yeol..]

{Impeachment Situation} The power of the people who are in a dilemma over establishing relations with President Yoon Suk Yeol seems to be growing more and more signs of division.

I'm Kang Min-kyung of YTN.

Reporter for filming
: Lee Sung-mo Han Sang-won
Video editing: Seo Young-mi
Design: Kim Jinho



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