▲ People Power Party Chief Spokesperson Park Sung-hoon
The People Power Party (PPP) stated that "the 'fabricated investigation' frame pushed by the massive ruling party and President Lee Jae-myung has clearly been proven to be a grand deception of the public," following the first-instance sentencing of former Gyeonggi Province Vice Governor Lee Hwa-young to four months in prison by a jury trial for perjury regarding the so-called "salmon and alcohol party" allegations.
Chief Spokesperson Park Sung-hoon said in a commentary today, "Former Vice Governor Lee's absurd lies were the core script for the Democratic Party to frame the entire Ssangbangwool illegal remittance case as a 'fabricated investigation by the prosecution,'" adding, "The truth behind the allegations of a 'salmon and alcohol party inside the prosecutor's office,' which deceived the public and mocked the judiciary, has finally been revealed."
Spokesperson Park pointed out, "The Democratic Party treated these false claims like a sacred relic, abusing parliamentary hearings and investigations, and ran wild threatening to impeach prosecutors who were conducting legitimate investigations," and added, "Furthermore, they even pushed for a 'special counsel to drop the indictment' to erase President Lee's judicial risks."
He continued, "The entire public party took the lead in paralyzing the national criminal justice system and deceiving the public by jumping on the shameless lies of a criminal," urging, "President Lee and the Democratic Party must stop their attempts to launder crimes immediately."
Rep. Joo Jin-woo, head of the party's "Special Committee on Preventing the Cancellation of President Lee Jae-myung's Trial," wrote on Facebook, "Even the slightest shred of evidence for dropping the indictment against Lee Jae-myung has collapsed," and urged, "President Lee must stop his attempts to cancel the indictment and apologize."
Rep. Kim Jang-kyum, Chief of Staff to the Party Leader, quipped in a Facebook post, "What will be the next move for the Lee Jae-myung administration and the Democratic Party, who are desperate to erase their own crimes?"
"Perhaps they will push for a legal amendment to abolish the jury trial system," he added.
Independent lawmaker Han Dong-hoon also emphasized on Facebook, "The 'shamanistic ritual of false accusations' that the entire Lee Jae-myung Democratic Party administration threw themselves into has ended," adding, "Those who staged this ritual of false accusations must be held accountable."
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