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■ Interview: Democratic Party member Kim Doo-gwan
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▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: The interview with Democratic Party member Kim Doo-gwan is the first step.
Welcome to.
▶Doo-gwan Kim/ Democratic Party Member: Nice to meet you.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: Do you guess what was the reason for Congressman Kim Doo-gwan today?
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: Since I insisted that President Yoon Suk-yeol should be impeached by the National Assembly, it was excommunicated, so I expect that he invited him to confirm the authenticity.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: First, the court accepted the request to suspend the execution of the disciplinary action issued by Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol.
Honesty 2 months.
That was the case, but why did Rep. Doo-Kwan Kim, then let's put it together in the National Assembly, and the President apologized.
There seems to be a lot of atmosphere in the passport to organize, but why did you insist on impeaching the National Assembly?
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: The disciplinary committee of the Ministry of Justice actually had a defect in the disciplinary procedure, so the court accepted the application for temporary injunction.
I accepted the request for honesty, but if you look at the content, the court made a timely time like'inspection of judges is very inappropriate', but in fact, we think that it is an obvious criminal act or illegal act.
Also, in the case of Channel A, which intervened in the election, it is also the case that actually interfered with the prosecution.
So, looking at the court's ruling this time, I'm still thinking that the omnipotent prosecution still has a slight effect on the court's ruling, and I am thinking that the people, the people who support the Democratic Party and the passionate party members I got about 4,000.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: Did you get 4,000?
▶Doo-gwan Kim/ Democratic Party Member: Yes.
Including prosecution reform, judicial reform, and media reform, I am facing a tremendous demand from the Democratic Party to faithfully support the civil intention given in the April 15 general election and play a proper role, and I tend to communicate well with front-line party members.
I thought that the patience of the party members had come to the limit and that we should at least accept that driving force as a member of the ruling party, so Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol returned, but I am a bit careful about what he will do in the future.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: Then I'll ask you a question like this.
Maybe you've gotten a lot of questions like this.
Even after the two months of suspension, the execution was suspended by the court. If that is the case, the impeachment does not prevent him from serving as prosecutor general at all, the National Assembly?
▶Doo-Kwan Kim/ Democratic Party Member: Yes, it is.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: Is this possible?
Isn't there a lot of objections such as,'Would the Constitutional Court accept it if the impeachment proceeding to the Constitutional Court has been resolved and goes to the Constitutional Court?'
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: The decision of the Constitutional Court and in the National Assembly, the representative body of the people, high-level politics is an impeachment decision.
So, I think the symbolism of the impeachment resolution is very large.
Now, my own prosecutors or my immediate prosecutors have interfered in this way, but the airborne agency, launched in January, may investigate directly.
Also, for example, there are active discussions in our party like'Let's impeach, let's do a special prosecution, let's reform the system', and I'm not without democracy in the party so far, but I'm looking at this issue with great joy.
As such, democracy within the party becomes an active forum for discussion and public debate, so when the National Assembly votes for impeachment, I am immediately suspended.
Why do I look at the matter again? Anyway, through the prosecution, the conservative opposition, the media, a strong vested interest alliance, and a cartel, I think that President Yoon Suk-yeol is standing at the center of constantly attacking the Moon Jae-in government and in fact taking power. I thought it was natural to exclude that job, so I am going to initiate an impeachment.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: However, it seems that the Democratic Party leadership does not readily accept the impeachment promotion that Rep. Kim Doo-gwan argues so strongly.
Rather, the leadership focuses on the reform of the prosecution, and today, the Supreme Council's meeting probably comes in close contact with the confirmed person, Rep. Kim Jong-min is also examined, and a voice is heard, and the Supreme Council's meeting is held in the afternoon.
I think it's a little bit like this with impeachment.
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: I use all means and weapons to make a total attack, and I think that at least such a force and our Democratic Party are in an all-out war, but I have a weapon of impeachment, a weapon of institutional reform, and a special prosecutor. There are tanks and artillery guns over there to attack.
I think we can't just shoot pistols among the many means.
Of course, since the President apologized and did this, I do not understand the grievance of the leadership to change the phase, but many people who strongly support our party and wish to complete the reforms of the power institutions including the prosecution reform are now the leadership. And they are making quite different opinions.
It is not fierce in the parliamentary room in our party, but quite a lot of lawmakers come up with their views on this issue, so at least the two traps of impeachment and institutional reform should go at least. Just as even Choi Kang-wook, the representative of the Open Democratic Party, said that the means of impeachment should not be hidden while paying close attention to whether or not to do so, I think that many of our party's lawmakers think so.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: Then, Rep. Kim Doo-gwan guesses that whatever the party leadership finally makes, this issue will be discussed at the assembly of the Assembly.
Does Rep. Kim Doo-gwan have a position like'I will not unconditionally propose impeachment' or'I am strongly insisting on this, but as the consensus within the party gathers, I will follow it'?
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: First of all, I will convene my fellow lawmakers that I should impeach as much as possible, listen to opinions, and also hear a lot of opinions from front-line party members, so that my leadership will have a valid card of impeachment. I'm trying to convince you.
I am predicting that our leadership will not organize the card like this when we close the card of impeachment because there is a strong demand from party members.
The expression of various weapons is such that it is the prosecution's mobilization by using various means and methods and constitutional means. If this is not prevented, I am very concerned, but strongly insisting, because I am in this position that there is no future of democracy or Korea. I am listening to their advice.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: Is it more likely that you will initiate an impeachment proposal?
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: I haven't changed my beliefs.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: Then I will ask you a question like this.
If the Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol is there, does nothing work?
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: Well, for the person our party is very concerned about, the Channel A case was actually a case to intervene in the general election before the general election.
There are really too many to list about President Yoon Seok-yeol's political activities, but there are obvious concerns that he doesn't know what he will do anyway.
Going hard like this is against the mayor of Busan or the mayor of Seoul. Because I feel it, I am making a strong claim.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: I am the prosecutor general appointed by President Moon Jae-in.
After President Moon Jae-in's request for suspension of execution was accepted by the Administrative Court, he also expressed his intention to apologize to the public through a spokesperson. After that, isn't it classified as a hardline theory, this assertion of an impeachment proposal?
At the same time, what kind of national fatigue is increasing? Isn't it true that voices of concern like this are also in the party?
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: The President's apology did not apologize for the discipline Yun Seok-yeol.
It is believed that he made a fundamental apology as the chief executive of state administration for the situation that caused such confusion.
I think the party is different again.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: Then, the viewers must have fully understood the thoughts of Rep. Kim Doo-gwan, but the Justice Party has been making a lot of critical voices against the ruling party after the last general election.
▶Doo-gwan Kim/ Democratic Party Member: Yes.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: There is a story that CEO Jong-cheol Kim picked up about Rep. Kim Doo-gwan.
After listening to it, I will ask you another question.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: What would you say to Rep. Kim Doo-gwan, Kim Jong-cheol, the president of Justice Party?
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: I would like to take note of the advice of Justice Party President Kim Jong-cheol anyway. I believe that reforms of power institutions, including the prosecution reform, have been a thirty-year long-awaited project, and are in the process of being finalized. So, I do, but I cannot withdraw from here and I think that Korea will jump one step further, so I have no intention of giving up my beliefs.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: It seems like a lot of things will come out in the course of discussions between the leadership and Rep. Doo-Kwan Kim. Or, I think some people will interpret this as well. Rep. Kim Doo-gwan has also challenged the presidential election before, and from the Namhae County governor to the Gyeongnam governor, grassroots democracy, from the bottom up to here. People who interpreted this way as they moved to Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do, and Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, who do not have a connection with themselves, and became a member of the National Assembly, aiming at the strong supporters of the ruling party and insisting on the impeachment bill this time, or for accepting the presidential election. I think there will be.
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: Of course, people who look at color theory seem to tell the story that way. I'm the ones who try to examine the party members' interests and public sentiment the most. Because there is a strong demand that the Democratic Party, who gave the overwhelming majority to the 4.15 general election, really did not properly respond to this demand for clearing a number of redundancies and presenting a new blueprint for reform, it did so at the request of the sovereign party members and citizens. I think it is a prediction of people who think that way. As I said that Minister Choo Mi-ae risked his life in prosecution reform, I believe that the Republic of Korea is also going all-in through the unfinished prosecution reform anyway, and it is the story of critics in Yeouido that link it like that.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: From Namhae County to Gyeongnam Branch. During the participatory government and during the Roh Moo-hyun administration, he was nicknamed Little Roh Moo-hyun. I think that Rep. Kim Doo-gwan still has a dream to challenge the presidential election and rule this country.
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: Personally, the situation is unfolding over the next year's presidential election fiercely now. So, I am thinking that I will clearly play a role in the re-creation of the democratic progressive reform camp regime, whether large or small. Perhaps our party members and those who hold the spirit of the times and the aspirations of many people who wish to re-create the regime will be responsible for raising the flag. I will try to fulfill even my small role for the victory of the democratic progressive reform camp.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: Can you accept it as a means that Rep. Kim Doo-gwan will challenge if he has a determination regardless of this part of the current approval rating?
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/Democratic Party Member: It would be better if the interpretation was convenient.
▷ Joo Young-jin/Anchor: Okay. It was an interview with Democratic Party member Kim Doo-gwan. I listened to you today.
▶Kim Doo-Kwan/ Democratic Party Member: Thank you.
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