“I can’t do it now or in the 21st National Assembly”
“No help in the election… Promotion from June”
In addition, Rep. Ho-jung Yoon, chairman of the Democratic Party Prosecutors’ Special Committee on Prosecution and Reform of the National Assembly, is holding a general meeting of the Judiciary Committee held at the National Assembly on the 25th. yunhap news
“If we don’t do it now, we may not be able to do it in the 21st National Assembly.” “If not now,” he said he misses the right time to deal with the bill. Prosecution reform was driven by heavy political schedules such as the 4/7 re-election for the second half of this year, the presidential election in the second half of this year, and the next presidential election (March) and local elections (June). We believe that the second round’ discussion could be pushed back. The group representing the’accelerationist’ is the’Like-hoe’, which is a group of first-time lawmakers such as Democrat Hwang Unha, Kim Yong-min, Kim Nam-guk, and Open Democratic Party representative Choi Kang-wook. They also proactively initiated a bill to establish the’Severe Crime Investigation Office’. In the Democratic Party’s Special Prosecutors’ Reform Committee, lawmakers from non-prosecutors tend to emphasize prompt processing. They said that although the prosecution’s right to investigate has been adjusted since January, the prosecution still has the right to directly investigate the six crimes, including corruption, economy, public officials, elections, defense projects, and major catastrophes. Insist. However, the prudentists insist that the pace of discussion should be adjusted for the same reason. It is said that if the issue of prosecution reform is highlighted ahead of the by-election, which should put the public welfare issue at the fore, there will be no help in the election. On the 25th, a Democratic Party lawmaker who emphasizes speed control said, “If we are in the shape of confronting Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol again, and the issue focuses there, it is not good for us. In order to push ahead, there is an opinion that it would take a drive from around June after the re-election is over.” There are also voices that it is necessary to take into account the situation where the right to investigate prosecutors and the launch of a high-ranking officials criminal investigation office have just taken place. Democratic Party lawmaker Lee Sang-min, who served as chairman of the National Assembly Legislative Justice Commission, publicly expressed concerns about the acceleration of the establishment of the investigation office through his Facebook page. Rep. Lee said, “If the investigative agency is established, the national investigation function is too distracting. In particular, the burden and pressure on the people and businesses may be increased due to the scattered investigation agencies. “It is to manage precisely and intensively so that the right to investigate is settled and operated well.” In order to prevent disagreements over speed from becoming a conflict within the party, the party leadership has publicly announced its policy of’preliminary and later bill discussions’. A member of the party leadership said, “It is the party’s established position to propose a bill in early March and to deal with it in June,” he said. “However, the leadership thinks that it is necessary to organize the special committee members.” The Special Prosecutors’ Office for Reform is setting a goal to propose a single proposal that gathers opinions from the special committee on the 8th of next month. Inside and outside the Democratic Party, it is also interpreted that such a rapid movement is not irrelevant to the term of President Lee Nak-yeon, which ends on the 9th of next month. The party leadership said, “Because it has promised to initiate the bill in February, it will speed up the motion of the bill,” but some view it as intending to initiate a symbolic follow-up bill for the’second round of prosecution reform’ before the end of Lee’s term. By Seo Young-ji, staff reporter