The People Power Party on the 9th criticized the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission's announcement that there were problems in the way the case was handled when the "emergency helicopter transport favoritism" controversy was raised during Democratic Party of Korea leader Lee Jae-myung's tenure, saying it was "a state institution volunteering to be a 'memory laundromat' to erase the president's past blemishes ahead of the local elections."
Chief spokesperson Park Sung-hoon said in a commentary that "what the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) put out under the grand name of a 'normalization task force' was ultimately nothing more than 'past laundering tailored to the taste of the administration.'"
Park said, "At the time, President Lee Jae-myung called an emergency helicopter like a 'call taxi' and headed to Seoul, bypassing Pusan National University Hospital, which has one of the nation's top regional trauma centers," adding, "Is granting a free pass to conduct that undermined trust in regional health care and shook the foundation of the medical delivery system really what the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) calls normalization?"
The Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) said the day before that, in the normalization task force (TF), it found the 2004 determination that medical staff violated a code of conduct was inappropriate and that there was improper intervention by the then Secretary-General in the process.
On X (formerly Twitter) that day, President Lee attached an article about the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) announcement and posted, "Judicial murder through fabricated indictments by prosecutors, bladed murder by mobilizing terrorists, and character assassination by mobilizing fabricated media. From these three grave threats of murder, the people, that is, heaven, saved me."
Song Eon-seog, the People Power Party floor leader, wrote on Facebook, "Even the assault incident he experienced is being used as material to build up a forced push for canceling the indictment for his own self-exoneration, babbling about judicial murder through fabricated indictments," adding, "Once again, it becomes clear that behind the push for the special prosecutor act to cancel the indictment lies President Lee's own earnest will."
Lawmaker Na Kyung-won also wrote on Facebook, "Under the pretext of normalizing the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission (ACRC), he grabbed and shook the commission to his liking to give himself a free pass for his 'helicopter preferential transport,' and now he is pathologically fixated on canceling the indictment by packaging even the rightful judgment of the law as 'judicial murder,'" criticizing, "President Lee should stop self-laundering crimes and self-deification and first stand trial in the cases that have been halted."