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On the 22nd, Prosecutor General Kim Oh-su expressed his gratitude once more following five days when the Democratic Party and the people’s power expressed their will to accept the arbitration proposal proposed by National Assembly Speaker Park Byeong-seok in relation to the ‘completely deprived of the prosecution’s investigation authority’ on the 22nd.
“The Prosecutor General will take responsibility for all these circumstances and submit a resignation letter,” Kim said through the spokesman’s office of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office on the same day.
The arbitration plan accepted by both the opposition and opposition parties included the separation of the prosecution’s direct investigative powers and the prosecution’s powers, and the deletion of public officials’ crimes, election crimes, defense business crimes, and major catastrophes from among the “six major crimes” that are currently under the prosecution’s investigation scope. The authority to directly investigate other corruption and economic crimes will also be abolished once the Serious Crime Investigation Agency is established.
In addition to the reduction of special departments, restrictions on the number of prosecutors in the special department and restrictions on special investigations such as cases sent to the police were also included in the arbitration plan.
Previously, President Kim expressed his resignation on the 17th in protest once morest the Democratic Party’s proposal for a ‘check-and-run’ bill. He persuaded the National Assembly.
However, it seems that the arbitration proposal accepted by the ruling and opposition parties on that day effectively deprived the prosecution of the investigation power and that it was a bill to prevent ongoing or future political investigations, and ultimately resigned once more.
The Democratic Party plans to handle the mediation bill at the National Assembly plenary next week. Accordingly, the possibility that the new bill will be approved at the Cabinet meeting on May 3 has increased.
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