Reform Party Proposes Alliance with People Power Party to Block 'Special Counsel Bill on Fabricated Indictments'

Reform Party emergency committee meeting on November 12
Lee Kiin urges President Lee to veto the special counsel bill

On November 12, the Reform Party said it would join forces with the People Power Party in an opposition campaign to block the “Special Counsel Bill on Fabricated Indictments.”

Lee Ki-in, chair of the Reform Party's emergency committee, told reporters after a committee meeting at the National Assembly that day, “We proposed to the People Power Party that we join forces and fight together.” He added, “As committee chair, I am also discussing with the committee members what form our campaign should take,” and said, “We will reach a conclusion soon and announce it.”

Lee Ki-in, chair of the Reform Party's emergency committee, speaks at a committee meeting at the National Assembly last month. Photo provided by Yonhap News.

At the meeting, Lee described the special counsel bill as “a bill to protect one person, the president,” and urged President Lee Jae-myung to exercise his veto himself. “This is a special counsel bill concerning the president's own trial,” he said. “The president should exercise his veto himself rather than shifting responsibility to the prime minister and Cabinet members.”

Lee criticized the Democratic Party, referring to the family of the late Kim Moon-gi, former head of Development Division 1 at Seongnam Development Corporation, in connection with the Daejang-dong development scandal. “Politics that failed to protect even one working-level official has now drawn up a special counsel bill to protect one person, the president,” Lee said. “A special counsel bill that cannot even answer who fabricated what in a case in which the president was indicted, yet seeks first to build a case for dismissing the charges, must be scrapped.”

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