The People Power Party criticized the Democratic Party of Korea on the 11th for its proposal of the 'Prosecutor Reform Bill,' which primarily aims to abolish the prosecutor's office and establish the Public Prosecution Service, the Serious Crime Investigation Agency, and the National Investigation Commission, calling it 'the prelude to a collapse of the rule of law.'
Spokesperson Park Min-young noted in a commentary that this is a 'reckless attempt' to split the prosecutor's office and create two new investigative agencies amid a situation where citizens are despairing over the Public Officials Crime Investigation Office (CIO), which has caused countless social controversies, let alone its nearly five-year track record since its establishment.
Spokesperson Park said, 'Having experienced the side effects of delayed civilian investigations and police workload overload due to reckless reform of the prosecutor's office, I feel despair over the reckless decision to go one step further. Is there truly no learning ability within the Democratic Party?'
He remarked, 'The group that will suffer the most from the Democratic Party's reckless legislative rush is none other than our citizens,' adding, 'the disintegration of investigative agencies means the beginning of a collapse of the rule of law and signifies the loss of means to protect citizens from political corruption and civilian crimes.'
Former representative Han Dong-hoon wrote on Facebook, 'In short, this is the start of a 'Cultural Revolution' under the Lee Jae-myung government,' stating, 'The Supreme Public Prosecutors' Office in Korea is comparable to China's Supreme People's Procuratorate, which was dissolved in 1968 during the height of the Cultural Revolution. The era was dominated by the madness of smashing public security, prosecution, and courts with the notion of 'let's destroy.'
He asserted, 'Politicians who fear the prosecutor's office and say they wish it would no longer exist in this country are truly the ones that most citizens would wish would no longer exist in this country,' adding, 'if the system is dismantled so recklessly, only the citizens will suffer.'