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Rival parties spar over special probe into election-meddling scandal
By 정주원Published : Feb. 10, 2014 - 15:01
Rival political parties wrangled Monday over the opposition's demand for a special independent probe into the state's alleged meddling in the 2012 presidential election, citing the recent acquittal of a former police chief implicated in the case.
Calls for an independent investigation by the opposition have grown after the Seoul Central District Court acquitted former Seoul police chief Kim Yong-pan last week of scaling back and whitewashing the results of a police probe into the state spy agency's alleged campaign for then presidential candidate and now president Park Geun-hye ahead of the December 2012 election.
The main opposition Democratic Party has filed a motion to dismiss Justice Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, accusing him of interfering with the prosecution's investigation into the scandal, and vowed to step up efforts for a special independent probe.
"The majority of the public said they couldn't accept (Kim's) acquittal and called for determining the truth behind all suspicions surrounding the presidential election through an independent probe," DP chief Kim Han-gil said during a Supreme Council meeting, citing meetings he held with the public in the Gangwon and Gyeongsang provinces over the weekend.
"President Park and the (ruling) Saenuri Party should no longer try to cover up the truth but reveal the truth to the people through an independent probe, punish those responsible if there was any wrongdoing, and if there wasn't, confidently lay out that truth to the public."
The ruling party dismissed the DP's demand as another political offensive and a challenge to the independence of the judiciary.
"If the No. 1 opposition party tries to drag down the public's livelihoods with a groundless political offensive, it will face the judgment of the people in the upcoming local elections," Rep. Choi Kyoung-hwan, the floor leader of the ruling party, said at the party's Supreme Council meeting.
The June 4 elections for mayors, governors, council members and education superintendents are seen as a midterm confidence vote for the Park government, which took office last February. (Yonhap News)
Calls for an independent investigation by the opposition have grown after the Seoul Central District Court acquitted former Seoul police chief Kim Yong-pan last week of scaling back and whitewashing the results of a police probe into the state spy agency's alleged campaign for then presidential candidate and now president Park Geun-hye ahead of the December 2012 election.
The main opposition Democratic Party has filed a motion to dismiss Justice Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, accusing him of interfering with the prosecution's investigation into the scandal, and vowed to step up efforts for a special independent probe.
"The majority of the public said they couldn't accept (Kim's) acquittal and called for determining the truth behind all suspicions surrounding the presidential election through an independent probe," DP chief Kim Han-gil said during a Supreme Council meeting, citing meetings he held with the public in the Gangwon and Gyeongsang provinces over the weekend.
"President Park and the (ruling) Saenuri Party should no longer try to cover up the truth but reveal the truth to the people through an independent probe, punish those responsible if there was any wrongdoing, and if there wasn't, confidently lay out that truth to the public."
The ruling party dismissed the DP's demand as another political offensive and a challenge to the independence of the judiciary.
"If the No. 1 opposition party tries to drag down the public's livelihoods with a groundless political offensive, it will face the judgment of the people in the upcoming local elections," Rep. Choi Kyoung-hwan, the floor leader of the ruling party, said at the party's Supreme Council meeting.
The June 4 elections for mayors, governors, council members and education superintendents are seen as a midterm confidence vote for the Park government, which took office last February. (Yonhap News)
