On the 10th, the Democratic Party withdrew its impeachment motion against Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office Deputy Chief Prosecutor Lee Jeong-seop and Korea Communications Commission Chairman Lee Dong-gwan. The Democratic Party is expected to re-introduce the impeachment bill on the 30th and push through it.
Lee Dong-gwan, Chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, attends the general meeting of the Special Committee on Budget and Accounts held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the 10th. /News 1
Park Joo-min, senior vice floor leader, held a press conference at the National Assembly this morning and said, “Our party just submitted a withdrawal of the impeachment motion submitted yesterday,” and added, “The withdrawal was completed without any problems.” He said, “Although we withdrew it this time, we will continue to push for the impeachment bill during the plenary sessions scheduled for the 30th and December 1st.”
Park, senior vice-president of the National Assembly, responded to the opposition of the People’s Power Party, saying that withdrawal of the impeachment bill requires a plenary consent procedure, saying, “Once it is filed, it is immediately withdrawn,” adding, “The political offensive of the People Power Party, which caused arbitrary interpretation and confusion, has stopped.” “I hope so,” he said.
Previously, the Democratic Party proposed a bill to impeach Chairman Lee as its party line at the plenary session of the National Assembly on the 9th. In addition, an impeachment bill was proposed against Lee Jeong-seop, Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office, who is leading the investigation of Representative Lee Jae-myeong, and Deputy Chief Prosecutor Son Jun-seong of Daegu High Prosecutors’ Office, who is suspected of ‘inciting the accusation.’
However, the People Power Party gave up on the initially announced filibuster at the last minute and was unable to schedule a plenary session within 72 hours, putting a brake on the process. If the Democratic Party fails to withdraw the impeachment bill on this day, the impeachment bill will be discarded after 72 hours and automatically treated as ‘rejected’. In this case, it is impossible to reconsider the impeachment bill during the regular National Assembly session that continues until December 9. However, as the Democratic Party decided to voluntarily withdraw the impeachment bill and the National Assembly Secretariat accepted it, the impeachment bill became possible to be reconsidered during the regular National Assembly.
2023-11-10 02:42:45
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