On the 19th, the Innovation Council announced in a press release that, "At around 3 p.m., ahead of the first trial for instigating perjury by Representative Lee, the company filed a lawsuit against him in Seoul Central District Court, following the trial on the 13th."
According to the Innovation Council, a total of 1,037,561 people filed petitions online and 87,068 people offline on that day.
The petition was signed by 124,629 people. The signature campaign led by the Innovation Council ran from the 8th of last month to the 18th of this month. Prior to this, the Innovation Council held a press conference on the 15th regarding the first trial of Lee's suspected violation of the Public Offices Election Act.
On the 13th, two days before the trial, a petition was submitted to the court. At that time, a total of 1,030,586 people signed the petition. The Innovation Council said, "The petition campaign was not intended to put pressure on the court, as some have argued.
"We have started a petition to denounce the unjust indictment by the political prosecutors and to convey our desire for a fair and just verdict," he said.
He continued, "If the purpose was to put pressure on the court, it would have been better to hold a press conference from the beginning.
We may have tried to attract public attention through such means as public appearances and taking actions to pressure the judges one by one, but we never did anything like that from start to finish.
The people who pressured the court were lawmakers from the People Power Party, who demanded that Lee's sentencing trial be made public." The Innovation Council said, "We don't know what kind of pressure the court received, but
What is really bothering the public is the fact that a prison sentence has been introduced for those who spread false information with the aim of winning under the Public Offices Election Act.
That is it," he said.
2024/11/20 20:59 KST
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