Floor leader Song Eon-seog of the People Power Party said on the 13th that if the Democratic Party of Korea pushes ahead with handling the "second comprehensive special counsel bill" at the National Assembly plenary session on the 15th, the party "will fight back using every means, including a filibuster (unlimited debate)."
At a floor countermeasures meeting held at the National Assembly that morning, the floor leader said, "The second comprehensive special counsel bill that the Democratic Party says it will pass at the plenary session on the 15th is nothing but a 'three major special counsel reextension bill.' It is merely a scheme to stoke an insurrection."
He added, "The goal of the three major special counsel reextension bill is solely a ploy to turn the June 3 local elections into an insurrection-mongering election," stressing that it is "an election scheme to brand incumbent People Power Party local chiefs as accomplices to martial law and inflict political damage."
He went on, "Will the Democratic Party handle the first bill of the new floor leadership as a one-sided special counsel bill to crack down on the opposition?" and urged, "We hope floor leader Han Byung-do's inaugural pledge to recognize the opposition as a negotiation partner and one pillar of state affairs does not become a flash in the pan, dragging the National Assembly once again into endless political strife."
Regarding President Lee Jae-myung's proposal for a meeting of ruling and opposition leaders, he criticized it as "nothing but an idle notion by the president to summon ruling and opposition leaders for a luncheon at a time when an extreme clash over a filibuster is expected," calling it "a move that disregards the National Assembly and the opposition."