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Cheon Jun-ho, acting floor leader of the Democratic Party, said April 23 that the party will convene a plenary session and move to pass pending livelihood-related bills to support the Lee Jae-myung government’s state affairs agenda. He also vowed to pursue the truth behind what he called fabricated indictments by prosecutors during the Yoon Suk Yeol administration.
Speaking at a party policy coordination meeting at the National Assembly on Thursday morning, Cheon said, “With the domestic and international situation severe, the Democratic Party will do its utmost to firmly support the Lee Jae-myung government’s governance and respond without disruption to livelihood issues.” He said the plenary session scheduled for Thursday afternoon would handle “state tasks and urgent livelihood bills.”
Cheon said more than 240 bills have been placed on the plenary agenda and called on the People Power Party to cooperate. “Delaying passage without any particular reason is a dereliction of duty by the National Assembly,” he said, urging lawmakers to take a broad view in processing bills “for the national interest and people’s livelihoods,” adding there were no specific issues currently driving partisan confrontation.
Cheon also said hearings held by a National Assembly special committee investigating allegations of fabricated indictments by what he called the “political prosecution” under the Yoon administration had laid bare the reality of such cases.
“The reality of seven major fabricated indictments carried out by Yoon Suk Yeol’s political prosecution has been revealed,” Cheon said. He claimed Yoon’s goal was “only one: removing Lee Jae-myung and erasing the Moon Jae-in administration.”
Cheon singled out the Ssangbangwool North Korea remittance case, saying it was “beyond fabrication, at the level of fiction.” He said an audio recording involving Prosecutor Park Sang-yong showed it was a fabricated indictment in which prosecutors “intervened on all fronts.” Cheon alleged that prosecutors “covered it up” despite receiving a report from the Financial Supervisory Service on suspected wrongdoing by the Ssangbangwool Group, and that the result was a “stitched-together” investigation that gave Kim Seong-tae a pass while indicting Lee and people around him.
He also described the case involving alleged manipulation of real estate statistics under the Moon government as a “targeted investigation” hastily put together 28 days before a general election. He called the case involving the fatal shooting of a South Korean public official in the West Sea a political retaliation case, saying it took only 43 days to move from the incident to a complaint being filed.
Cheon said the special committee would continue tracking the allegations through an on-site inspection Thursday of the Financial Supervisory Service and the Board of Audit and Inspection, and through a comprehensive hearing scheduled for April 28.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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