▲ People Power Party Floor Leader Jeong Jeom-sik speaks during a press conference on pending parliamentary audit issues at the National Assembly on October 18.
People Power Party Floor Leader Jeong Jeom-sik today (October 18) urged Democratic Party of Korea Leader Kim Min-seok to "promptly conclude whether or not to pursue the impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae."
Holding a press conference at the National Assembly on this day, Floor Leader Jeong stated, "Prolonging confusion while merely calculating their own political liabilities on whether to impeach or not is an extremely irresponsible act for a ruling party. Do not hold the judiciary and the fate of the Republic of Korea hostage to your politics."
Floor Leader Jeong criticized, "Leader Kim is going beyond a politically contentious audit and turning it into an impeachment audit. As the leader of the ruling party officially declared that he would discuss impeaching the chief justice, the entire audit is being sucked into an impeachment black hole."
He added, "The cause behind the plunge in the approval ratings of the government and the ruling party lies in the collapse of people's livelihoods, diplomatic disarray, and personnel catastrophes. Yet Leader Kim pulled out the impeachment card simply to rally their base again from a crisis they brought upon themselves. Rather than overcoming the crisis through policy and competence, they are attempting to mobilize the extraordinary measure of impeachment to reverse their approval ratings."
Floor Leader Jeong stressed, "Just the fact that the leader of the giant ruling party formalized the pursuit of impeaching the chief justice carries immense repercussions, and it carries a weight that is virtually no different from introducing an impeachment bill. Leader Kim must take stern responsibility for the remarks he made. We will mobilize every means at our disposal to block the impeachment motion and the impeachment."
Meanwhile, regarding the transfer of wartime operational control (OPCON), Floor Leader Jeong urged, "The transfer of OPCON must be based on capability, not timing. The government and ruling party must halt attempts to forcibly align the OPCON transfer with the timetable of the presidential term and review the schedule through sufficient consultation with the United States."
He continued, "Indiscriminately throwing around emotional slogans and merely scheming to use it as an achievement during the term is extremely dangerous. This administration's amateurish adventurism must not ruin national security."
(Photo: Yonhap News)
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