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The Democratic Party, which pushed through the amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act, held a public briefing to explain subsequent measures and other details. The People Power Party declared that the rule of law has received a death sentence and urged the President to exercise his veto power.

Reporting by Park Jae-yeon.

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Three days after the amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act passed the National Assembly, the Democratic Party held a public briefing yesterday (August 3) titled "Toward a Fairer Criminal Justice System."

Officials explained the follow-up measures as follows.

[Han Byung-do / Democratic Party Floor Leader: We will seamlessly prepare the organization, personnel, and budget, and meticulously review the transfer of cases and the cooperative framework between agencies.]

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

[Seo Young-kyo / Democratic Party Lawmaker: We will wear body cameras during search and seizures so that not a single location, a single case, or a single piece of evidence is missed, and record them on video.]

An internal debate also broke out within the Democratic Party regarding former President Roh Moo-hyun.

Following a social media post by former President Moon Jae-in 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 former President Roh to the amendment. In response, lawmaker Kwak Sang-un, who is the son-in-law of former President Roh, publicly pushed back.

Kwak directly criticized the remarks, 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's politics.'"

Holding its Supreme Council meeting in front of the Blue House, the People Power Party condemned the amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act as a wicked law that only benefits criminals, urging the President to exercise his 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, calls for impeachment will only grow stronger.]

The People Power Party plans to file a petition for a constitutional review if the President promulgates the law without exercising his veto, indicating that the political conflict surrounding the amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act is set to continue before the Constitutional Court.

(Video Reporters: Oh Young-chun, Lee Seung-hwan, Shin Dong-hwan, Kim Yong-woo)