Lee Jun-seok considering legal action... What are the remaining two variables?

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Let's talk more about this with reporter Lee Hyun-young, who covers the power of the people.

[Reporter Lee Hyun-young: From the conclusion, it is impossible to conclude with certainty who is the party leader right now.

Article 23 of the Party Regulations, where the argument is sharply opposed, states that disciplinary measures are taken by the Party representative or the key member of the Party delegated by the Party.

CEO Lee Jun-seok said, 'As the CEO himself, he has the right to take this disciplinary action.

So, the disciplinary effect does not take effect until I dispose of it,' and floor leader Kwon Seong-dong is running parallel, saying, 'On the contrary, it is the party's custom for the ethics chairman Lee Yang-hee to exercise the final disposition right'.

We have to make a final interpretation of who is right, but it is an unprecedented situation, so the party has not been able to come up with an answer right away.]

[Reporter Lee Hyun-young: The party's top members and the secretariat are putting a little more force on the interpretation of floor leader Kwon Seong-dong.

As Lee's authority was suspended immediately after the ethics committee's decision was made, it would be appropriate to enter the acting system as the second-ranked floor leader of the party.

We were curious too, so we talked on the phone with In Myeong-jin, a former vice chairman of the Liberty Korea Party, who participated in the making of the ethics committee rules in 1995.

Former Speaker In said that it is right that the suspension of party membership takes effect the moment the ethics committee decides, and that the party leader cannot cancel his own disciplinary action.

In this regard, CEO Lee said that he would not provide additional interpretations.]

[Reporter Lee Hyun-young: The first variable is the judgment of the court.

CEO Lee has already announced that he will file an application to suspend the enforcement of the disciplinary action with the court.

If the court accepts this, Lee will be able to return to the position of party leader until a judgment on the merits is issued.

The second is the judgment of the investigative agency.

The police are investigating the charge of sexual assault and destruction of evidence against Lee.

If he pleads guilty to the charges and puts him on trial, this representative will be in a bigger crisis.

According to the People's Power Party rules, if additional disciplinary reasons occur after disciplinary action, more severe disciplinary action than before.

Conversely, if the acquittal is dismissed, then CEO Lee will immediately get a justification for a counterattack, so depending on the result of the investigation, it seems that the power of the people will be engulfed once again.]