Song Eon-seog, floor leader of the People Power Party, said on the 27th that the president "should of course exercise the veto" on the law-distortion offense that passed the National Assembly the previous day.
At a press briefing at the National Assembly that morning, Song said, "If the Ministry of Government Legislation judges properly, it can fully reach the conclusion that it is unconstitutional. In that respect, I believe the president will exercise the veto on an unconstitutional law," and stated accordingly.
He said, "On the floor right now, without amending the Constitution and only by revising a statute, they are conducting a filibuster (unlimited debate) on unconstitutional legislation that seeks to change the three-tier court system into a four-tier system," adding, "Even though the legal community and academia have already pointed out that there is a high risk of unconstitutionality, the ruling party insists it is not unconstitutional and is butchering the constitutional order of separation of powers—that is dictatorship politics."
He went on, "It seems Korea has now entered a fully totalitarian stage of dictatorship," adding, "As the opposition and as members of the National Assembly, we bear great responsibility for failing to stop such dictatorship politics, but the very fact that the opposition cannot stop a dictatorship is what makes it a dictatorship. The People Power Party will mobilize emergency measures and fight back on the recognition that the current system is already not a normal democratic republic but a dictatorship."
Asked about specific emergency measures, he said, "Spelling out emergency measures is akin to revealing the party's floor strategy," adding, "We will deliberate carefully on how to resolve points of contention between the ruling and opposition parties in the National Assembly or conflicts between national interests."