"Lee Jin-sook Like a Female Chun Doo-hwan"… Resolution Calling for Expulsion Passed

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The Democratic Party has passed a resolution in the National Assembly urging the expulsion of People Power Party lawmaker Lee Jin-sook, who has been embroiled in controversy over disparaging the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement. Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok even referred to lawmaker Lee as a "female Chun Doo-hwan."

[Reporter] Kim Kwan-jin.

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During the Democratic Party's on-site Supreme Council meeting held in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, today (the 26th),

Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok made the following remarks regarding what to call People Power Party lawmaker Lee Jin-sook.

[Kim Min-seok / Leader, Democratic Party: How about we just uniformly call her "female Chun Doo-hwan"? She doesn't even seem to think that being called a "female Chun Doo-hwan" damages her reputation.]

Targeting lawmaker Lee, who faces criticism for hosting a "seminar disparaging May 18," leader Kim launched a fierce attack on the 15th by calling her a "female Hitler and a female Chun Doo-hwan." He was pointing out the fact that lawmaker Lee only took issue with the term "female Hitler" and sued him for defamation.

The Democratic Party urged lawmaker Lee to step down from her parliamentary position,

[Chun Joon-ho / Senior Deputy Floor Leader for Operations, Democratic Party: (During the seminar) remarks glorifying Chun Doo-hwan, the main culprit behind the military coup and massacre, also continued. Hosting such a seminar can only be seen as a premeditated distortion of history.]

The Democratic Party also passed a resolution urging the expulsion of lawmaker Lee during the plenary session of the National Assembly today.

People Power Party lawmakers walked out without participating in the vote, and lawmaker Lee made the following claim outside the plenary chamber.

[Lee Jin-sook / Lawmaker, People Power Party: The one-party dictatorship of the Democratic Party has stripped even a member of parliament, who represents the people, of the freedom of speech.]

While the People Power Party leadership has stated that it is not considering disciplinary action against lawmaker Lee, the Democratic Party is also moving to revise the National Assembly Act to enable parliamentary-level disciplinary measures.

The Democratic Party's proposed revision would allow for a suspension of duties of up to one year if a lawmaker hosts a seminar or provides a venue where acts of slandering or distorting the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement are expected.

However, a parliamentary disciplinary motion must pass through the Special Committee on Ethics, and the 22nd National Assembly has not even formed the Ethics Committee yet.

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