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The so-called 'check-and-run' legislation that drastically reduces the prosecution's investigative powers and separates prosecution and investigation was completed yesterday (3rd).
President Moon Jae-in delayed the schedule of the Cabinet meeting and promulgated the bill passed at the plenary session.
Reporter Kang Cheong-wan reports.
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takes only 3 minutes from the opening of the plenary session to processing the amendment bill.
[Park Byeong-seok/Chairman of the National Assembly: (Criminal Procedure Act partial amendment bill) is declared passed.]
With 164 votes in favor, 3 against, and 7 abstentions, the legislation to reduce the prosecution's investigative power, which the opposition and opposition parties faced each other, was completed in 26 days.
The amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act, which was voted on, included content that, from four months later, greatly reduced the scope of the prosecution's supplementary investigation into cases sent to the police and, in principle, bans so-called separate investigations.
A resolution on the establishment of a special judicial reform committee to discuss the establishment of a Korean-style FBI and a tentatively named Serious Crimes Investigation Agency was also passed.
President Moon Jae-in has decided to promulgate the law by delaying the last cabinet meeting of his term from 10 am to 2 pm.
[President Moon Jae-in: Concerns about political
neutrality, fairness, and selective justice still have not been resolved, and there have been evaluations that it is insufficient to gain the public's trust.]
"I urge you to discuss it quickly so that the purpose of the reform can be properly realized in the subsequent legislative process."
[Lee Su-jin / Democratic Party floor spokesperson: Today's achievement has historical significance for the transformation of the Korean judicial system.
I will take steps to enact legislation following the normalization of institutions of power.]
The People's Power lawmakers gathered in front of the former Blue House of the State Council to criticize the Democratic Party and President Moon.
[Kwon Seong-dong/People's Power Floor Leader: The idea that they will evade, escape, and not be punished by completely taking away the prosecution's investigative authority, (the people) will never tolerate it.]
The legislative and administrative procedures of the bill have been completed, but the disguise and evasion of the party It is expected that a legal battle will continue at the Constitutional Court, etc. over whether there are procedural defects.