People Power Party Calls "Special Prosecutor Bill on Fabricated Indictments" the "Worst Abuse of Power Using Legislative Authority"

Nov. 5: Special Prosecutor Bill on Fabricated Indictments Brought Before Plenary Session
PPP Holds Rally Before Session, Strongly Protesting the Move
Jeong Jeomsik Steps Up Criticism: "The National Assembly Is Dead Today"

When the special counsel bill on fabricated indictments was placed on the National Assembly plenary session agenda on Nov. 5 at the ruling party's initiative, the People Power Party strongly protested, calling it "the worst abuse of power, carried out by mobilizing the National Assembly's legislative authority."

Earlier that afternoon, before the plenary session opened, People Power Party lawmakers held a rally outside the National Assembly chamber under the banner "Condemnation Rally Against the Special Counsel on Fabricated Charges to Cancel the President's Trial," criticizing the ruling party's unilateral move to bring the bill to the floor. They chanted slogans including, "Withdraw the special counsel on fabricated charges to cancel the President's trial" and "Destroy the special counsel built on legislative tyranny to complete a dictatorship."

People Power Party leader Jang Dong-hyuk, floor leader Jeong Jeom-sik and other lawmakers hold a picket protest against the special counsel bill on fabricated indictments at the National Assembly on Nov. 5, 2026. Photo by Yoon Dongju.

Floor leader Jeong Jeom-sik criticized the bill, saying, "A legislative expo is being held outside the main building, while an expo for bad laws is taking place inside." He added, "This is a special counsel bill that would have the President himself appoint the special counsel investigating his own case, and that has already concluded that all trials involving the President are based on fabricated indictments."

"The National Assembly died today," he continued. "The ruling party has been reduced to a private detective agency for erasing the President's crimes." He added, "The 160 Democratic Party lawmakers who helped pass this bad law will be enshrined in history textbooks forever," and said they would "be recorded as a criminal gang that destroyed the Constitution and ethics and murdered democracy."

He called the bill "a reckless, unconstitutional parliamentary coup that mobilizes power to eliminate the trials the President should face," and claimed it was "the worst interference in a trial, with the conclusion of fabricated indictments predetermined in an attempt to overturn the judiciary's not-guilty verdicts."

He also called it "a special counsel bill that distorts history, born of a sordid backroom deal between pro-Lee and pro-Moon factions," saying it was intended to grant impunity even in cases such as the forced repatriation of North Korean defectors during the Moon Jae-in administration.

Assemblyman Joo Jin-woo, who spoke at the rally, also claimed it was "a collusive deal aimed solely at eliminating the trials of President Lee Jae-myung and former President Moon Jae-in," adding that "even the trials of citizens harmed by the crimes of the Daejang-dong group could be thrown out."

Referring to the provision requiring the special counsel to maintain the prosecutions in related cases, he criticized it as "a trick that opens the door for a special counsel appointed by the President to take a lax approach to maintaining prosecutions."

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