ruling party "Lee Jae-myung's first trial live"...Minju, Special Committee on Judicial Defense

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People's Power is insisting every day that the first trial hearing of Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, scheduled for this month should be broadcast live.

The Democratic Party of Korea launched a new committee and began full-fledged activities, saying it would prove Lee's innocence.

Reporter Hong Min-ki reports.

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The People's Power has repeatedly expressed its position that the first trial of Democratic Party Chairman Lee Jae-myung, scheduled for the 15th and 25th, should be broadcast live.

Representative Lee, who claims innocence, said there is no reason to refuse live broadcasting, and pointed out that it is also polite for representative Lee's supporters to disclose the trial.

[Choo Kyung-ho / Floor Leader of People's Power: If Representative Lee Jae-myung does not agree to the live broadcast, please decide to broadcast the trial live.]

The public's power has been eager to stage a "judicial risk" offensive day after day ahead of Lee's sentencing, including a petition to the first trial court asking for a live broadcast of the sentence.

Amid the analysis that both the violation of the Public Official Election Act and the perjury teacher are confident that they will be convicted,
It is interpreted as a strategy to use it as an opportunity to turn the political situation around at a time when he is on the defensive due to suspicions about Myung Tae-kyun
.

Representative Lee will lose his position as a member of the National Assembly if the Supreme Court confirms the fine of more than 1 million won for violation of the election law, and the case of perjury teachers.

On top of that, it is the first sentence of Lee's political life, as he was virtually deprived of his right to run for president for five years after the sentence was confirmed, so even if it is the first trial, it is also read that he intends to conduct a live public opinion war.

Democrats, on the other hand, are focusing on defending "judicial risks" by launching a new in-party committee, saying they will respond to the prosecution's "quiet killing."

He defined the live broadcast of the first trial as Lee's "disgrace cycle" and said he would inform the public of Lee's innocence, refuting the prosecution's unfair legal principles.

[Jeon Hyun-hee / Special Chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea's Judicial Justice Committee: How futile and unfounded the current political oppression of Representative Lee Jae-myung is....]

In September, the Democratic Party launched a similar committee to prevent political prosecutors from oppressing Lee.

As representative Lee Jae-myung's first trial sentence approaches next week, the public opinion battle between the ruling and opposition parties is getting fiercer.

The general analysis is that the sentence will not have a significant impact enough to shake the "Lee Jae-myung's solo system" in the opposition party, but some analysts say that it will have a significant impact on the public opinion of the middle class depending on whether or not they are deprived of the right to vote.

I'm YTN's Hong Min Gi.

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