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Controversy over "withdrawal of the crime of rebellion" and the inner part is "Lee Jae-myung's 2nd trial" time fight?

2025.01.06 PM 10:57
[Anchor]
With the withdrawal of the "crime of rebellion" from the reasons for impeachment by the National Assembly's impeachment investigation team of opposition lawmakers, the ruling party seems to be raising the level of pressure, saying it should also consider re-voting the impeachment.

Excluding the crime of rebellion is a plan to advance the impeachment of the president by a day rather than the trial of representative Lee Jae-myung, while the Democratic Party of Korea opposes the ruling party's claim, saying it is only an operation to delay the impeachment trial.

This is reporter Park Jung-hyun.

[Reporter]
The People's Power Party leadership and senior lawmakers visited the National Assembly Speaker's Office to protest the "excluding the crime of insurrection" of President Yoon's impeachment.

Excluding the "crime of rebellion," which is a key reason for impeachment, the National Assembly's impeachment prosecution violates the lawmakers' right to vote, and a re-decision on the impeachment bill is needed.

[Park Hyung-soo / Deputy floor leader of People's Power: The two most important reasons are that declaring martial law is unconstitutional and that he committed rebellion. Because deleting or changing it is a very important change of reasons for prosecution....]

The People's Power believes that the background of the Democratic Party's decision to delete the rebellion is the political calculation that it will end the impeachment trial before the second trial of the Lee Jae-myung Election Act.

Representative Lee's "trick" to reduce judicial risk, and even pro-impeachment lawmakers in the ruling party protested, saying it is absurd to include and exclude the reason for impeachment to suit the taste of the Democratic Party.

[Kim Jae-seop / Vice President of People's Power Organization (SBS 'Kim Tae-hyun's Political Show' : I think it is unacceptable in my opinion that they voted for impeachment to exclude it for their own convenience and political reasons. The Democratic Party of Korea is now a civil war party along with Yoon Suk Yeol.]

On the other hand, the Democratic Party of Korea is in the position that the concept of "deleting the crime of rebellion" itself does not hold.

As the crime of rebellion can be argued in a separate criminal trial, the reason for impeachment has only been rearranged so that it can only be determined whether it is unconstitutional.

Nevertheless, the ruling party's mention of the risk of Lee Jae-myung's trial is absurd, and the Democratic Party believes that demanding the clarification of the rebellion is nothing more than a "trial delay tactic" by the ruling party and President Yoon.

[Lee So-young / Rep. of the Democratic Party of Korea (SBS 'Kim Tae-hyun's Political Show') : Factual relationship of the subject to determine whether it falls under the reason for dismissal. Martial law, proclamation, parliament and the courts have not changed at all. It's just that each institution does it according to their role.]

In the end, it is interpreted that behind the "except for the crime of rebellion" battle, the "time fight" strategy was at work between the ruling and opposition parties with early presidential elections in mind, and a fierce battle is expected between the ruling and opposition parties in the future impeachment trial process.

I'm Park Jeonghyun of YTN.

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