The plan for the "parliamentary investigation into allegations of fabricated indictments by prosecutors under the Yoon Suk-yeol administration" (hereinafter fabricated-indictment parliamentary investigation) passed the National Assembly's plenary session on the 22nd, led by the Democratic Party of Korea and other pro-government blocs. The National Assembly held a plenary session that day and put the motion to approve the fabricated-indictment parliamentary investigation to a vote. The result was unanimous approval by all 175 members present. The People Power Party boycotted in protest of pushing the vote through.
Those surveyed are the prosecution's investigations and indictments in seven cases, including the Daejang-dong development corruption and SSANGBANGWOOL's illegal remittances to North Korea, in which President Lee Jae-myung is implicated. The target institutions are the Supreme Court, the Board of Audit and Inspection, the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, the Korean National Police Agency and others, and 10 corporations including SSANGBANGWOOL and Hoban Construction are also included in those surveyed. The investigation period is 50 days from that day until May 8, and it can be extended by a plenary vote if necessary.
The People Power Party condemned the parliamentary investigation, saying it violates the legal clause that "audits or investigations must not be conducted for the purpose of infringing on an individual's privacy or intervening in prosecutions of cases that are under trial or currently investigating," and undermines the principle of separation of powers.
However, saying it must stop the Democratic Party's unilateral agitation, it decided to join the special committee on the parliamentary investigation. Accordingly, the special committee will consist of 20 members: 11 from the Democratic Party of Korea, 7 from the People Power Party, and 1 each from the Rebuilding Korea Party and The Progressive Party. The Chairperson will be Democratic Party lawmaker Seo Young-kyo.
That day, the People Power Party held an unlimited debate (filibuster) on the bill, but the Democratic Party ended the filibuster with a three-fifths majority of all members after 24 hours from the start of the debate.
Democratic Party Spokesperson Park Hae-cheol said, "The core of this parliamentary investigation is to confirm before the public whether investigations and indictments by the prosecution, a power institution, were conducted without political bias," adding, "We will also clearly uncover whether there was organized involvement by the Yoon Suk-yeol administration."