South Korean media reported that Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye will be pardoned. The Blue House spokesperson: The report is untrue!
[Global Times reporter Ma Fei] According to South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo reported on the 7th, the Blue House, the presidential palace of South Korea, is studying a plan to amnesty former presidents Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye.
In response to this, the Blue House spokesperson said that the report was untrue that day.
Data map: Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye.
The report quoted an unnamed person from the South Korean ruling party as saying: "It is not to pardon two former presidents at the same time, but to amnesty Park Geun-hye. As for Lee Myung-bak, what is currently being discussed is not an amnesty but probation and other plans. On the 14th of this month After the Supreme Court makes a judgment on Park Geun-hye, it will collect the opinions of the people, and the president will make the final decision.” Another person familiar with the matter also said: “Park Geun-hye has been detained in jail for nearly 4 years for being suspected of being a trusted believer in politics; Lee Myung-Hye Taking bribes and corruption and other personal unhealthy issues, coupled with being released on bail, is different from Park Geun-hye’s situation."
According to a report from South Korea’s KBS TV station on the 6th, the polling agency Realmeter recently conducted a survey on the issue of pardoning the former president with 500 people over 18 years old in South Korea. The results showed that the rates of approval and disapproval were 47.7% and 48%, very close. .
According to Yonhap News Agency’s report on the 7th, South Korean President Moon Jae-in held a New Year’s party in the form of video at the Blue House on the same day, defining 2021 as the year of unity.
Moon Jae-in said that unity of people is particularly important. As long as we respect each other and work hard to fight the epidemic and turn the crisis into a turning point, South Korean society can move further towards unity.
According to the report, Moon Jae-in raised the topic of "unity" when the political circles were discussing the pardon of Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye, which caused concern.
However, some people think that the unity mentioned by Moon Jae-in does not specifically refer to the unity of the ruling and opposition parties in the political circle, but to proceed from the overall governance and emphasize unity in a broad sense.
Qing House spokesperson Kang Minshuo responded to media reports that day that the Blue House had never discussed the so-called amnesty plan of certain newspapers.
South Korea has a precedent for pardoning former presidents.
In 1997, President Kim Young-sam pardoned former Presidents Chun Doo-hwan and Noh Tae-woo, who were sentenced to death and 22 years and 6 months in prison for rebellion and bribery.