Yun Ho-jung, the permanent election chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea. (Photo = News 1)
“President Yoon Seok-yeol should never try to kill Lee Jae-myung, just as former President Lee Myung-bak tried to kill former President Roh Moo-hyun,” said Yun Ho-jung, chairman of the Democratic Party’s joint emergency response committee.
Chairman Yoon said this while attending the opening ceremony of the election office for the by-election candidates for the National Assembly by-election held in Incheon on the 14th by Jae-myung Lee, Jae-myung, and Gye-yang, Incheon.
Chairman Yoon said, “When Candidate Lee ran for Gyeyang, there was a riot around the ruling party and the government, talking regarding ‘bangtan’. I heard this,” he said.
While Chairman Yoon was concerned regarding retaliation once morest Lee, who lost the presidential election, the party leadership continued to criticize the appointment of a large number of former prosecutors to the post of secretary of the presidential office.
At the opening ceremony, Song Young-gil, the mayor of Seoul, asked, “How will the Republic of Korea develop if the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, who won 16 million votes in the presidential election, is the subject of the investigation, saying that the president has no time to sleep and is confident in the investigation and arrest even if he only cares regarding the people’s livelihood?” did.
Candidate Song also said regarding Lee, “If I stood in line for power like anyone else, I might have become the prosecutor general, but I refused to become a judge and lived as a human rights lawyer with the common people. he emphasized.
Park Ji-hyeon, chairman of the joint emergency countermeasures committee, also said, “There are already signs of a ‘prosecutor’s dictatorship’. different,” he begged.
Reporter Eunji Cha, Hankyung.com [email protected]
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