Reporter Oh Jong-taek, chief spokesman for Democratic Party Choi In-ho
In addition, the Democratic Party announced on the 8th that it will take a strong response, such as permanent expulsion, if it is found that an elected official belonging to the party has speculated on the real estate of the third new city.
Democratic Party chief spokesman Choi In-ho met with reporters after a closed high-level strategy meeting on this day and said, “If speculators come out as a result of the party’s ethics inspection and investigation, we will take the strongest measures the party can do, such as permanent expulsion with the resolution to’sell family registers’. “I said. He said, “The policy is to investigate as quickly as possible,” he said.
The party’s ethics inspection team sent an official letter to its members of the National Assembly and their assistants, asking for a reply to the status of real estate possession in the third new city by 6 pm on the 10th. This is due to the fact that Nak-yeon Lee instructed the ethics inspection team on the 5th to investigate the details of land transactions in the third new city targeting the party’s lawmakers, local government heads, and local council members.
Chief spokesman Choi said, “We see this as a very serious matter, and we have to deal with it under the principle of the strongest punishment.” He said, “Our party lawmakers are proposing a bill with details such as returning speculative profits and strengthening penalties to prevent recurrence, but there was also an opinion that the party should review comprehensively and make a single proposal if necessary.”
However, when it comes to the issue of Byun Chang-heum, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, he said, “There has been no discussion,” he said. “There was an opinion that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (LH) should respond thoroughly as the main ministry with the determination that the protective instinct should not be invoked.”
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