People Power Party floor leader Song Eon-seog on the 12th urged newly appointed Democratic Party of Korea floor leader Han Byung-do to immediately withdraw the plan to unilaterally pass the second omnibus special counsel bill at the plenary session on the 15th.
At the party's supreme council meeting held at the National Assembly that morning, the floor leader said, "Stop trying to crush the opposition at the Big House, and let the ruling and opposition parties work together to save the people and livelihoods," and stated accordingly.
He went on to say, "Rejecting the two special counsels and one parliamentary inquiry while again proceeding only with an unfair, opposition-crackdown-type special counsel is an attempt to monopolize investigative power and nothing but an unnecessary repeat of special counsels that waste taxpayers' money," adding, "Who among the public could accept rehashing only matters already investigated to crack down on the opposition without touching the powers that be?"
That day, the floor leader again urged the Democratic Party to accept the two special counsels and one parliamentary inquiry. The two special counsels and one inquiry refer to: ▲ a special counsel to probe alleged collusion between the Unification Church and key figures in the Lee Jae-myung administration ▲ a special counsel to get to the bottom of the Democratic Party nomination bribery cartel ▲ a parliamentary inquiry into the administration's abandonment of appeals in corruption cases such as the Daejang-dong ring and the killing of a public official in the West Sea.
The floor leader said, "The Unification Church special counsel's target should be the Unification Church and Special Counsel Min Joong-ki, not the Unification Church and Shincheonji," adding, "A special counsel is essential into Special Counsel Min's team's selective investigations of only opposition lawmakers and its targeted, biased probe that concealed the same suspicions about ruling party lawmakers for four months."
He added, "As for the nomination bribes, the Democratic Party must accept this to prove the innocence of the then party leader, President Lee Jae-myung, Kim Hyun-ji, chief of staff to the presidential secretary's office, and other key figures in the current administration."
Regarding last year's Muan Airport passenger plane disaster, the floor leader also said, "We demand an immediate parliamentary inquiry to punish those responsible for neglecting the deadly concrete berm identified as the direct cause of the disaster," stressing, "We must find out why it was not corrected during the 2020 improvement work."