"Acting for Choi Sang-mok, considering the special prosecution law for civil war..."I'll listen to your opinions".

Acting President Choi Sang-mok has been agonizing over the independent counsel law for civil war, which was handled at the plenary session led by the opposition party.

Kang Young-kyu, a spokesman for the Ministry of Economy and Finance, said at a briefing at the Sejong Government Complex today that Acting President Choi Sang-mok is agonizing over whether to exercise the right to request reconsider and veto the independent counsel law.

In this regard, a government official said, "It is difficult to say that the independent counsel law was passed by the ruling and opposition parties, and some pointed out that an independent counsel is needed when President Yoon is arrested," raising the prospect that Acting President Choi will exercise his right to request reconsideration.

The amendment to the Independent Counsel Act, which was transferred to the government on the 18th, allowed the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to exercise the right to recommend candidates for the independent counsel, which was monopolized by the opposition party in the previous bill, and reduced the number of investigations to six by removing foreign exchange charges and propaganda and instigation of civil war from 11 existing bills.

The ruling and opposition parties negotiated to the last minute to pass the independent counsel law agreement, but failed, and passed the National Assembly plenary session on the 17th led by opposition parties such as the Democratic Party of Korea.

The deadline for exercising the veto power of the independent counsel law is until the 2nd of next month, and considering the Lunar New Year holiday, there is only a date tomorrow (21st) that can be presented to the regular cabinet meeting, but there is a possibility that it will be presented at an extraordinary cabinet meeting on the 31st.

Tomorrow (21st) the Cabinet meeting is expected to introduce a revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which the Ministry of Education opposes, and a special law on the prescription of anti-human rights national crimes, which Lee Jae-myung has pointed out as bulletproof.

The revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act stipulates artificial intelligence digital textbooks as educational materials rather than textbooks, so the Ministry of Education has proposed a request for reconsideration, and digital textbook publishers are protesting.

The National Crime Prescription Exclusion Act defines the distortion of evidence and abuse of authority by investigative agencies as anti-human rights national crimes and excludes the statute of limitations, which the ruling party has criticized as "to retaliate against the prosecutor investigating the case of Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea."

In addition, Choi is considering exercising his right to request reconsideration of the amendment to the Broadcasting Act, which integrates TV subscription fees, which are the sources of KBS and EBS, with electricity bills.