“I am a victim of fabricated prosecution” The President has already decided the answer... but can the Special Counsel say “No”?
“I am a victim of fabricated prosecution” The President has already decided the answer... but can the Special Counsel say “No”?
President Lee Jae-myung is moving to the main building of the National Assembly on the 2nd to deliver a speech on the 2027 government budget proposal. National Assembly Press Corps
Under the ‘Special Counsel Act on Fabricated Prosecution’ passed by the National Assembly plenary session on the 6th led by the Democratic Party of Korea, the Special Counsel will investigate whether there was any fabrication in the investigations and prosecutions conducted by the Yoon Suk-yeol administration's prosecution (currently the Prosecution Office) regarding 12 cases, including the 6 cases currently being tried by President Lee Jae-myung. Although the controversial ‘withdrawal of indictment’ clause was deleted from the bill, questions are being raised regarding the fairness and independence of the investigation, as the structure allows President Lee to directly appoint the Special Counsel investigating his own cases.
President Lee has repeatedly claimed that he is a victim of fabricated investigations and prosecutions by the prosecution. In a press conference marking his first anniversary in office last June, he supported the Special Counsel Act, stating, “The prosecution fabricated cases that didn't exist, manipulated evidence, and harassed me by indicting me without evidence. At the very least, the truth must be uncovered.” Last May, he wrote on X, mentioning “judicial murder through the prosecution's fabricated indictment,” and added, “The people saved me.” During a TV debate in April last year while he was a presidential primary candidate, he said, “They manipulate evidence and create entirely new cases. I have been a victim of this countless times.”
https://www.khan.co.kr/article/202611090600151
You New-Jae-myung supporters, is this what justice in a democratic republic looks like in your world?
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