Oh Sehoon: "President Lee, Exercise Your Veto Over Special Counsel Bill on Fabricated Indictments"

Via Facebook: "The last opportunity the public is giving the president"
"Nominates a Seongnam circle figure as justice minister nominee"
"Upending the judicial system for the sake of one person: the president"

Seoul Mayor Oh Sehoon urged President Lee Jae-myung to exercise his veto over the special counsel bill on fabricated indictments, warning, "If he vetoes even that, the public's reckoning with the Lee Jae-myung administration will begin."

In a Facebook post titled "The President Must Choose" on the morning of the 13th, Oh said, "This will be the last opportunity the public gives the president," and issued the warning.

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon. Yonhap News Agency

Oh said, "The special counsel bill on fabricated indictments is awaiting approval at a Cabinet meeting," adding, "They are trying to cross a line that should never be crossed, all to cancel the indictment against one person: the president." He continued, "As if that were not enough, the president nominated a figure from the Seongnam circle, one of his closest associates, as a candidate for justice minister," noting that the nominee "worked at the same law firm as the president and also served on the transition committee when he was mayor of Seongnam."

Oh criticized the move, saying, "It is tantamount to putting an enforcer tasked with canceling the president's indictment in the justice minister's post," and warned, "The Ministry of Justice is on the verge of becoming a department dedicated to managing the president's personal legal risks, rather than a state institution that upholds the rule of law."

Oh said President Lee should state his position directly on the controversy surrounding the special counsel bill on fabricated indictments. "Upending the judicial system, mobilizing investigative agencies and even privatizing the Ministry of Justice for the sake of one person—the president—is something that would happen only in the worst dictatorships," he said. "The president and the ruling party are tearing down with their own hands the national standing and competitiveness that the people have built through their blood, sweat and tears."

Oh also criticized reports that the prime minister may chair next week's Cabinet meeting, which is set to deliberate on the bill to promulgate the special counsel law on fabricated indictments. "After watching the Democratic Party's reckless rampage until now, putting the prime minister out front at the very last moment is a cowardly act," Oh said. "If he is so ashamed to personally bring down the gavel on a bill to cancel his own indictment, he should have prevented this from happening in the first place."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.