On the 25th, the Ethics Committee of the Central People’s Power Party initiated disciplinary proceedings against Yongsan-gu Park Hee-young in connection with the Itaewon Halloween disaster.
Immediately following the Ethics Committee meeting held that day at the National Assembly Building, Lee Yang-hee, chairman of the Ethics Committee, said, “Chief Park has initiated a disciplinary procedure to examine whether he has violated the maintenance of dignity by causing social controversies with inappropriate words and deeds.” he said. The Ethics Committee plans to decide whether or not to take disciplinary action and the level of the disciplinary action after going through the process of explaining to the Ethics Committee by Mayor Park in the near future. Even if the Ethics Committee of the party issues heavy penalties, such as expulsion, the election of Mayor Park, elected public servant, will not be canceled unless he voluntarily resigns.
President Lee explained that he was not deliberating whether there was a problem with Labor in Mayor Park’s disaster response process. Earlier, immediately after the Itaewon disaster, Mayor Park said, “Halloween is not a festival, but a phenomenon” and controversy arose over suspicions that he gave false explanations about the whereabouts of the disaster on the day of the disaster .
On the same day, the ethics committee said, “There is no such program” on whether to review further disciplinary measures against former CEO Lee Jun-seok. Please stop immediately,” he dismissed.
On the same day, the Ethics Committee rejected the request for a new trial made by Kim Cheol-geun, former head of the political affairs office. Former boss Kim, a close associate of former CEO Lee, was implicated on suspicion of destroying evidence of sexual favors and received a two-year suspension from party membership but was acquitted by police. President Lee explained, “The reason for the decision not to send the police was rejected because it had nothing to do with the reason for the disciplinary action of the People’s Power Ethics Committee.”
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