Choo Kyung-ho, floor leader of People's Power, said, ”The Democratic Party's outdoor rally is nothing more than an appeal to 'protect criminal suspect Lee Jae-myung'” (South Korea)

On the 3rd, Choo Kyung-ho, floor leader of the ruling People's Power Party, said, "He talked about the April 19 revolution and the candlelight revolution and asked us to fight together, but in the end he protected me, a criminal suspect.
It is merely a request for the Democratic Party to take action," he said, sharply criticizing the Democratic Party of Korea and its chairman Lee Jae-myung, who had held an outdoor rally in downtown Seoul the previous day.
Regarding President Yoon Seok-yeol's approval rating for his administration, which recently dropped to the teens, he said, "The current political situation and the poor approval rating are not something to be taken lightly."
He said that the process of reaching a consensus within the party would continue. In a press conference at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, floor leader Cho said, "At the outdoor rally yesterday, we said that the special investigation was just a superintendent.
"The whole nation knows that the only purpose of the investigation was to protect Lee," he said.
"There is absolutely no reason for the No. 1 party with the majority of seats to take to the streets," he said. The floor leader, Aki, said of Lee, "He already has four convictions, but he is facing four trials for 11 allegations in seven cases.
He also described him as the head of a mega-opposition party, posing as the president of Yeouido, privatizing legislative power, threatening the government and the judiciary, and destroying the separation of powers and democracy.
"I want them to stop taking legal action immediately," Seo Beom-soo, secretary-general of the People's Power Party, said at the meeting, "Chairman Lee Jae-myung is feeling anxious and is calling an emergency meeting of party members ahead of the sentencing of his own sentence.
"The rally was nothing more than a rally for Representative Lee Jae-myung to rally on the bulletproof law. It was a festival for them," he said. "There were people in the subway entrance building around Seoul Station where the rally was held who were not guilty of Chairman Lee Jae-myung's crimes.
"Papers with QR codes to participate in the petition were posted, and Lee himself even visited the petition booth demanding his own acquittal."
Meanwhile, in a recent opinion poll, House Speaker Aki's approval rating fell to the 10% range for the first time since his term began.
Regarding President Yoon Seok-yeol's approval rating for national affairs, he said, "It is very serious and I take it very seriously."
He said, "I think the presidential office will be very aware of this situation and will be struggling to come up with various ideas on how to deal with it."
Regarding President Yoon's possible absence from the National Assembly's State of the Nation speech on the 4th, House of Representatives Leader Cho said, "The Democratic Party of Korea is taking to the streets to impeach the president,
"Will it be a calm policy speech? I heard that there is a high possibility that it will create a scene of political infighting, so they are planning to have the Prime Minister read it on his behalf."
He also said, “In the past, prime ministers often read the speech on behalf of others. However, in the past 10 years, the president has read it himself, but before the State of the Nation speech, a large number of people read it to impeach the president.
There has never been a case where a major opposition party has gone outside the arena to fight. Everything is making political history as a first," he added.