DP Holds Public Briefing to Persuade Citizens... PPP Urges Presidential Veto

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The Democratic Party, which pushed through the revision of the Criminal Procedure Act, held a public reporting session, but debate erupted even within the party. The People Power Party called it a bad law that only benefits criminals and urged the President to exercise a veto.

Reporter Park Jae-yeon has the details.

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Three days after the revision of the Criminal Procedure Act passed the National Assembly yesterday (the 3rd), the Democratic Party held a public reporting session titled "A Fairer Criminal Justice System."

It explained the follow-up measures as follows.

[Han Byung-do / Democratic Party Floor Leader: We will seamlessly prepare the organization, personnel, and budget, and closely review case transfers and inter-agency cooperation systems.]

The party's stance is that it has also strengthened controls over the investigation process to prevent the police from "burying cases."

[Seo Young-kyo / Democratic Party Lawmaker: In cases such as search and seizures, body cameras will be worn, and video recordings will be made so that not a single place, a single case, or a single piece of evidence is missed.]

Inside the Democratic Party, a debate also broke out regarding the late former President Roh Moo-hyun.

Following former President Moon Jae-in's post on social media stating that "prosecution reform is a long-standing reform task that took its first step under the Roh Moo-hyun administration," former party leader Chung Cheong-rae, lawmaker Kim Yong-min, and others linked the revision to former President Roh. In response, lawmaker Kwak Sang-un, who is the son-in-law of former President Roh, publicly countered.

Lawmaker Kwak directly criticized them, saying, "Former President Roh never pushed to completely strip the prosecution of its investigative powers so that the police would hold exclusive investigative authority," and adding, "Do not distort 'Roh Moo-hyun politics.'"

The People Power Party, which held a Supreme Council meeting in front of the Blue House, denounced the revision of the Criminal Procedure Act as a bad law that only benefits criminals and urged the President to exercise a veto.

[Jang Dong-hyeok / People Power Party Leader: South Korea's rule of law has received a death sentence. If you refuse to exercise the veto, demands for impeachment will grow even stronger.]

The People Power Party plans to file a petition for a constitutional review if President Lee promulgates the amendment without exercising a veto, meaning political strife surrounding the revision of the Criminal Procedure Act is expected to continue onto the stage of the Constitutional Court.

(Photo: Yonhap News - Video Reporting: Oh Young-chun, Lee Seung-hwan, Shin Dong-hwan, Kim Yong-woo)
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