People Power Party leader Jang Dong-hyeok said on the 2nd that regarding the "three judicial laws" (offense of legal distortion, constitutional complaint against court rulings, and increase in Supreme Court justices) that passed the National Assembly led by the ruling party, "If President Lee Jae-myung has even a shred of conscience, he should exercise a veto on all three evil laws."
Jang held a Supreme Council meeting at the National Assembly this morning and said, "That is the only way to fulfill the constitutional duty given to the president to safeguard the Constitution," and stated accordingly.
Jang said, "We saw the end of the dictator of Venezuela and then the dictator of Iran. Even so, the Lee Jae-myung administration is now trying to go down the path of dictatorship at this very moment," adding, "What we thought would never happen has all become reality and was said. Now, in the Republic of Korea, the judiciary is completely under the feet of the administration."
Jang went on, "If March 1, 1919, was the beginning of our nation's independence, March 1, 2026, will be remembered as the day of the end of Korea's constitutional order," adding, "The Lee Jae-myung administration has made the entire people scapegoats of judicial destruction to avoid going to prison themselves. At this rate, it would be better to just make a 'Lee Jae-myung innocence law,' which would at least cause less harm to the public."
Floor leader Song Eon-seog said, "The three judicial-destruction laws did not go through procedures to gather the judiciary's views, nor a process of social public debate, nor procedures for bipartisan agreement in the National Assembly," adding, "If such unconstitutional bills are unilaterally handled by the National Assembly through the power of the majority party, the president, as head of the executive branch, should exercise the right to request reconsideration so that the legislature properly discusses them again and brings back the bills."