Lee Jae-myung, are you aiming for 'Trump Model'...Judicial risk is "overlapping".

[Anchor]
Recently, the results of the first trial of Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, have been popular in politics.

It is determined that representative Lee will refer to the case of Trump overcoming judicial risks, but there is also an analysis that the uncertainty of the trial surrounding his aides and himself is not easy.

This is reporter Kim Kyung-soo.

[Reporter]
After representative Lee Jae-myung was convicted of depriving him of his right to vote in the first trial of the Public Official Election Act on the 15th, U.S. President-elect Trump was mentioned in the Democratic Party.

[Park Ji-won / Democratic Party of Korea (SBS Radio 'Kim Tae-hyun's Political Show' on the 19th): President Trump, too. He went through so much trouble, but he ended up living in the Supreme Court and becoming president.

Lee also criticized Brazil's President Lula after prosecutors further indicted him on charges of misappropriating corporate cards.

[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party leader (20th): There was a position of Brazilian prosecutors that had been applied to Lula. "The reason there is no evidence is probably because it was hidden," it's the same.

Both Trump and Lula are foreign leaders who go beyond judicial risk, and some interpreted that Lee is also trying to follow this example.

The key is whether the approval rating is supported, and Lee's recent move is not irrelevant.

Following a series of meetings with conservatives, business figures, and foreign ambassadors, he is focusing on expanding his country by visiting Daegu and Gyeongbuk, the "heart of conservatives."

There is also an expectation that the judiciary will have no choice but to consider it if it solidifies its position as a presidential candidate beyond the opposition supporters.

[Kim Yong-min / Deputy floor policy leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (19th): The qualifications of Lee Jae-myung as a public official should also be judged by the public, not by judicial officials.]

However, despite the innocence of the perjury teacher in the first trial, the judicial risk of CEO Lee and his aides is still the biggest obstacle.

Regarding the suspicion of Baekhyun-dong's development preferential treatment, lobbyist Kim In-seop has been convicted, which is unlikely to adversely affect Lee's trial.

If Lee Hwa-young, the former governor of peace in Gyeonggi Province, is sentenced to another heavy sentence in the appeal of the remittance case to North Korea next month, this is also expected to be a bad news for Lee.

[Choo Kyung-ho / Floor Leader of People's Power (29th): The Supreme Court has finalized a five-year prison sentence for Kim In-seop, a lobbyist for Baekhyun-dong, who was close enough to call Lee Jae-myung a big brother. / Lee Jae-myung's judicial risk is still in the air]

In addition, there are observations that the second trial of the election law case and the final conclusion of the Supreme Court, which will determine the fate of the Democratic Party and representative Lee, will come out before the next presidential election, but prematurely using a strategy to delay the trial could backfire.

In addition, the impact of the impeachment of the head of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office and the Board of Audit and Inspection, which the Democratic Party is pushing for, on public opinion is also a variable.

Representative Lee Jae-myung took a breather, but the prevailing analysis is that there is still a long way to go.

I'm Kim Kyungsoo of YTN.