Fabricated-Indictment Special Counsel Bill Set for Plenary Passage Today... Opposition to Take Fight Outside After Filibuster

Set to pass with the ruling party leading the effort
People Power Party plans protest in front of the Blue House

Joo Jinwoo, a lawmaker of the People Power Party, is delivering an unlimited debate, or filibuster, at the National Assembly on the 6th on a bill to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of fabricated investigations and indictments by the prosecution, the National Intelligence Service, and the Board of Audit and Inspection under the Yoon Suk Yeol administration. Yonhap News Agency

With the standoff between the ruling and opposition parties reaching a peak after the fabricated-indictment special prosecutor bill was introduced at a plenary session of the National Assembly, the bill is expected to pass on November 6 with the ruling party's support. After the filibuster, or unlimited debate, that began the previous day ends, the opposition plans to continue its fight against the government outside the Assembly, including at the Blue House.

As of 11 a.m. on November 6, the filibuster on the bill had been underway for 19 hours. From the People Power Party, Assemblyman Park Hyungsoo, the opposition party's secretary on the Legislation and Judiciary Committee, was followed by committee member Assemblyman Joo Jinwoo, who took the floor to speak against the bill. Joo criticized it, saying, "(This special prosecutor bill is) a bill steeped in the privileged mindset of those in power" and "a bill seeking to rule over the people."

The People Power Party maintains that the bill is "a special prosecutor bill to fabricate the cancellation of President Lee Jae-myung's trials." It also objected to the bill covering cases from the Moon Jae-in administration as well as President Lee's trials. The Democratic Party of Korea, meanwhile, says the opposition is obstructing the bill, even though it removed not only the provision for dismissing indictments but also the authority to demand the transfer of cases, among other provisions.

The Democratic Party of Korea is expected to end the filibuster once the required time has passed, at around 4 p.m. on November 6, and immediately put the bill to a vote, leading its passage in the plenary session. After holding a rally at the National Assembly on November 6, the People Power Party plans to continue its protests outside the Assembly and one-person demonstrations from November 7 at Gyeongbokgung Station and in front of the Blue House.

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