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This is the next news.

The People's Power Ethics Committee is currently being held in the National Assembly.

We are debating allegations of sexual harassment and destruction of evidence surrounding Lee Jun-seok, representative of the People's Power.

For more details, please contact the reporter.



Reporter Lee Hyun-young, the meeting has been going on for about an hour now, how is the atmosphere?



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The People's Strength Ethics Committee started here at 7pm in the main meeting room of the National Assembly.



Eight out of nine ethics committee members are attending and continuing the discussion.



Currently, we are reviewing issues other than those for the disciplinary review of CEO Lee Jun-seok first.



Representative Lee did not attend today's (22nd) meeting.



He expressed his intention to attend, but said he was rejected by the ethics committee, and is awaiting results in the party representative's office.



Instead, after a while, at around 9 o'clock, Kim Cheol-geun, the chief of the political affairs department of the party's representative, who is close to him, appears.



Director Kim is suspected of attempting to destroy evidence by meeting with the person who raised the allegation of sexual abuse under the direction of CEO Lee.



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So, at today's meeting, will CEO Lee Jun-seok be disciplined, even the level of disciplinary action?



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There is a possibility that no conclusion can be reached today.



Power of the People According to the Party's constitution, the person concerned can be called to hear the call during a disciplinary deliberation, but making a conclusion without the representative's attendance is very burdensome, such as resistance to the result.



First of all, the ethics committee is expected to focus on whether or not CEO Lee intervened based on the questions and answers about Chief Kim Cheol-geun.



Director Kim has been insisting that he met to check the facts and that there was no direction from Lee, and it is known that he will repeat the same position today.



Above all, it is expected that the ethics committee's deliberation will continue until late tonight, as it is an unprecedented disciplinary deliberation on the ruling party leader and, depending on the level of disciplinary action, even the loss of the representative office.



(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Won-hee Won)