Criticizing the president’s ‘rule of law’
“Appoint a special inspector to crack down on his aides”
On the 10th, Lee Jae-myeong, the representative of the Democratic Party, attended the Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office regarding the ‘suspicion of sponsoring Seongnam FC’. Photo Collaboration Foundation
On the 11th, Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung said, “I will not yield in the future to the prosecution’s regime’s violent distortion and manipulation attempts that turn sincere efforts for the sovereign into crimes.”
Representative Lee said this at the Democratic Party Incheon Field Supreme Committee held at the Incheon City Party of the Democratic Party of Namdong-gu, Incheon on this day. Representative Lee was investigated for about 12 hours on suspicion of sponsoring Seongnam FC at the Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office the previous day.
Representative Lee said, “Yesterday, I confidently confronted the political prosecution and came to the investigation.” Representative Lee said, “Even if the prosecution slanders and fabricates, the people and history will win.”
Representative Lee said, “The president’s office secretly says that it will establish a public office inspection office,” and “the appointment of a special inspector is still unknown. Everything is seen as ‘the rule of law’ in the style of President Yoon Seok-yeol, except for me and my surroundings,” he said. Representative Lee said, “I want to ask if (the Office of the President) abolished the Office of the Chief of Civil Affairs for this purpose.
The special inspectorate was introduced to prevent corruption among relatives and close aides of the president, but no one has been appointed since the resignation of inspector Lee Seok-soo, who was appointed under President Park Geun-hye, in September 2016. Referring to the special inspector general, Lee seems to have tried to arouse suspicions such as the involvement of President Yoon Seok-yeol’s spouse, Kim Gun-hee, in the stock price manipulation of Deutsche Motors.