Jang Donghyeok: "Special Counsel to Dismiss Indictments Will Become Special Counsel to Cancel the Administration... People Will Hold It Accountable"

Jang Donghyuk, leader of the People Power Party, said on Nov. 5 of the special counsel bill on fabricated indictments being pushed by the Democratic Party of Korea, "It will be a special counsel investigation to cancel the administration, not to cancel indictments," adding, "If they push ahead recklessly with a special counsel investigation to cancel indictments, the people will hold the administration accountable by bringing it to an end."

People Power Party leader Jang Donghyuk looks around the meeting room with his lips tightly sealed before the start of a Supreme Council meeting at the National Assembly on Nov. 5, 2026. Photo by Yoon Dongju

Speaking at a Supreme Council meeting that morning, Jang said, "The special counsel bill to cancel indictments, which the Democratic Party vowed to push through at lightning speed at today's plenary session of the National Assembly, is neither a bill related to people's livelihoods nor one to revive the economy. It is simply a bill to save one person, Lee Jae-myung (the president)."

Regarding the Democratic Party's passage the previous day at the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee of a special counsel bill that removed the provision for canceling indictments, he said, "They say there is no problem because the provision was removed, but the people know that even without it, there are ten or twenty avenues open to cancel indictments," adding, "Canceling indictments was the bill's purpose from the outset."

Jang also addressed President Lee's remark that "home prices are falling to a surprising degree," saying, "It seems he made an absurd remark and is having trouble walking it back." He added, "Only the three Gangnam districts have seen prices fall for eight weeks, yet he calls it a long-term decline. He keeps quiet about Seoul home prices rising for 90 weeks, while boasting that delinquencies and property auctions have increased."

Jang continued, "The surge in properties for sale and sharp drop in transactions that the president boasts about mean that people's suffering is growing. At this point, a president who takes pleasure in the people's suffering is a devil." He added, "The way to end worries about housing is to bring the Lee Jae-myung administration to an end with astonishing speed."

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