The Democratic Party of Korea said on the 29th that the People Power Party's failure to adopt the personnel confirmation report for Prime Minister nominee Kim Min-seok is "protecting treason and denying the results of the presidential election." It also noted that the verification of the nominee has "already been completed," adding that "the public wants the Lee Jae-myung government to be fully established quickly."
Democratic Party spokesperson Kim Hyun-jung said during a National Assembly briefing that "the People Power Party occupied the main building of the National Assembly and held Kim's nomination hostage, insisting that 'the redistribution of the chair of the Legislation and Judiciary Committee must come first,'" adding that "the act of bringing the government to a complete standstill is not cooperation but a hostage crisis regarding personnel, ignoring the people's livelihood."
She continued, "Refusing to adopt the (personnel confirmation) report for the prime minister nominee and paralyzing the National Assembly's schedule is no different from protecting treason and denying the results of the presidential election," emphasizing that "as long as the People Power Party cannot escape from being a treasonous party, its place will become increasingly narrower." She also stated that the confirmation of the nominee and the rapid processing of the supplementary budget worth 30.5 trillion won would need to be completed by the 4th at the latest.
On the other hand, the People Power Party responded that the Democratic Party's actions are "one-sided fabrications," stating that "the suspicions against the nominee have only grown rather than diminished." People Power Party floor leader Song Eon-seok said on Facebook that "the personnel confirmation process has left only anger and frustration among the public," mentioning issues such as sponsorship, wardrobe, cabbage farming, semiconductor, national debt ratio, and targeted prosecutorial appeals, and added that "the public is confident that the nominee is incapable and an immoral unqualified individual, yet the nominee has set a precedent saying that 'if you insist on something, it works' during the confirmation hearing."
Floor leader Song stated, "The nominee has set a precedent that claiming without evidence on all allegations is sufficient, and that insisting that everything is a targeted or manipulated investigation by the prosecution is enough, and that asserting that all misstatements were not meant as such is sufficient." He further remarked, "With the president and prime minister mired in a plethora of allegations and suspicions, one cannot expect clear waters below."
The People Power Party will hold a party-level 'national confirmation hearing for the nominee' on the morning of the 30th. Although the two-day National Assembly confirmation hearing has concluded, the party stated that it is holding its own hearing as the public's suspicions have not been resolved at all. Floor leader Song noted, "We will continue to verify the candidate with national confirmation committee members, including youth, defector populations, and experts in various fields."