Blue House says Choi Min-hee's account that “President Lee opposed Yoon's impeachment” is baseless, expresses strong regret

[Financial News] On the 12th, the Blue House expressed strong regret over remarks by Choi Min-hee, a senior member of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK)'s Supreme Council, that President Lee Jae Myung had opposed the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, calling the remarks “baseless.”
Kang Yoo-jung, the Blue House's senior presidential spokesperson, said in a press notice that “Choi Min-hee's account, reported by a particular media outlet, that President Lee Jae Myung opposed the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk Yeol is baseless, and we express strong regret over it.”
Some media outlets had earlier reported that Choi, a senior DPK Supreme Council member, said, “President (Lee Jae Myung) also opposed Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment,” while discussing the impeachment of Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae at a closed-door meeting of party members held in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, in the middle of last month. According to the reports, Choi claimed that Lee, then the DPK leader, had favored working with Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to push for former President Yoon to step down.
In response to an inquiry from the media outlet, Choi said, “It seems that some of what was discussed at the closed-door party-member meeting was passed to the media in a distorted form.” Regarding her remarks about impeachment, she explained that her point was that “Lee Jae Myung, then the party leader, did not support impeachment from the outset,” and that Lee had tried to seek a solution with Prime Minister Han.
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