President Lee Jae-myung on the 2nd addressed prosecutors, saying, "Anyone can make mistakes," and, "Do not fall into the trap of infallibility."
At a Cabinet meeting presided over at Cheong Wa Dae that day, after hearing a national performance report from the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, the president said, "(The prosecution) is a public-interest, quasi-judicial body with duties to the public and duties of objectivity. It also has enormous authority and must bear responsibility commensurate with it," adding, "If you do wrong, you apologize and cancel it."
The president's remarks came after receiving a work report from acting Prosecutor General Gu Ja-hyeon. The president did not specify what issue the comments referred to.
The opposition camp said the president's remarks were a demand to drop the indictment in the case in which the president was charged. Han Dong-hoon, an independent candidate for the Busan Buk-gap National Assembly seat, shared an article reporting the president's comments and said, "What are you telling them to 'cancel'? Today's remarks are the setup to push through dismissal of his own indictment after the election, just as previewed," adding, "I will go into the National Assembly and stop it."
Song Eon-seog, floor leader of the People Power Party, also said, "The Lee Jae-myung administration has begun to start the engineered politics of 'erasing the president's crimes' to be pushed after the local elections," adding, "We ask all citizens to go to the polls tomorrow and vote against dropping the indictment that would erase the president's crimes."