Jeong Jeom-sig meets Choi In-ho, senior presidential secretary for political affairs; criticizes special counsel on fabricated prosecution and Future Response Fund

[Financial News] People Power Party floor leader Jeong Jeom-sig made clear his opposition to the Special Counsel Act on Fabricated Prosecution and the establishment of the Future Response Fund during a meeting with Senior Presidential Secretary for Political Affairs Choi In-ho on the 10th. Choi replied, “I will pass this along so that (the Blue House) listens carefully.”
Jeong met with Choi at the National Assembly that day and said, “Our party opposes the special counsel to cancel indictments and is staging an outdoor protest.” He added, “The country’s main opposition party has no choice but to leave the National Assembly and protest in the streets in the cold of winter.”
Jeong said, “The government and ruling party say the special counsel is a law to investigate fabricated prosecutions and has nothing to do with canceling indictments. I think that treats the wise public as fools and is an attempt to pull the wool over their eyes.” He added, “The special counsel is intended to brand the five trials in which President Lee Jae Myung is a defendant as fabricated prosecutions.”
He continued, “It runs counter to the principle of equality before the law, interferes with trials and violates the independence of the judiciary.” He raised his voice, saying, “The president is using his power and mobilizing the state system to make his own trials disappear. This is utterly unacceptable.”
On the Future Response Fund, he said, “It is a pot of money the administration can dip into whenever it needs, without approval from the National Assembly.” He added, “Cuts to the local allocation tax are threatening local government budgets, making cuts unavoidable.”
He also lamented, “As political culture becomes more extreme, dialogue between the ruling and opposition parties is increasingly being stifled,” and urged, “Please communicate with the opposition with a spirit of serving the people.”
Choi replied, “I fully agree that communicating with the opposition is communicating with the people, and that doing so is a way of serving them.” He added, “When I told the president I would be meeting with the floor leader, he urged me to visit often, listen carefully and make sure what I heard was conveyed.”
He added, “I consider communication with the opposition my most important duty, and I will visit so often that I wear out your doorstep.”
In response to the People Power Party’s concerns about the Future Response Fund, he said, “I will make sure the opposition’s various concerns and criticisms are conveyed to the Democratic Party leader as well, and pass them along so that the chief of staff and relevant senior secretaries at the Blue House listen carefully.”

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