Presidential Office: ”Opposition party should stop unprecedented legislative rampage and impeachment campaign” (South Korea)

On the 29th, the presidential office strongly criticized the opposition party, saying, "The opposition party must immediately stop their unprecedented legislative rampage and reckless impeachment attempts to destroy national affairs while completely ignoring the people's livelihood."
During a briefing at the Presidential Office in Yongsan on the same day, Jeong Hye-jung, spokesperson for the Presidential Secretariat, said, “The impeachment proceedings against the Democratic Party of Korea’s Board of Audit and Inspection are constitutional.
"This is the first time in political history that this has happened, and it undermines the very foundation of constitutional order," he said. "If the constitutional function of the Board of Audit and Inspection is paralyzed, the damage will be passed directly on to the public.
"It is political impeachment to impeach the Board of Audit, which has the potential to be a powerful body, for not achieving the results the opposition party wanted," he said.
Regarding the impeachment drive, he said, "It is clearly a retaliatory impeachment." Chung said, "The purpose of impeaching the prosecutors is to stop investigations and trials related to the opposition party, and it is an attempt to weaken the judicial system."
"I can't believe it. They're impeaching me for the sake of the opposition party's bulletproofness," he said. Regarding the proposed amendments to the rules of the permanent special counsel, he said, "It would be a shame for players who have to play in a game to be able to change the rules of the game and the referees to suit their own preferences.
"It is quite possible to predict how politically biased the special counsel's investigation will be," he said.
Regarding the Grain Law, which requires rice producers to purchase rice produced in large quantities, he criticized the bill, saying, "Even producers' groups are concerned about this bill. It will have the side effect of solidifying the rice oversupply and worsening the fall in rice prices in the long term."
Along with the Grain Law, the opposition parties also passed amendments to the Law Concerning Distribution and Price Stabilization of Agricultural and Fishery Products, the Agriculture and Fisheries Disaster Countermeasures Law, and the Agriculture and Fisheries Disaster Insurance Law.
"This appears to be an attempt to pass a bill that has already been scrapped in order to induce the right to request a reconsideration," Chung said.
"The remaining bills are all stopgap measures that will only deepen the financial burden and supply-demand instability, and will not contribute to development, so much so that they are being called the 'four bills that will ruin agriculture.'"