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It has been confirmed that President Yoon Seok-yeol has decided to exclude politicians such as former President Lee Myung-bak from the Liberation Day special amnesty.

It seems that he was conscious of the public opinion against the amnesty of politicians and the low approval rate for state management.



Reporter Park Won-kyung on the sidewalk.



<Reporter> President Yoon Seok-



yeol has suggested the possibility of amnesty for former President Lee Myung-bak.



[President Yoon Seok-yeol (June 9): Isn't it wrong to have him spend twenty years in prison?

Even in light of past precedents.]



However, it was confirmed that former President Lee was not included in the Liberation Day pardons reviewed by the Ministry of Justice's amnesty review committee.



Politicians of the ruling and opposition parties, including former Gyeongnam Governor Kim Kyung-soo and former Minister of Strategy and Finance Choi Kyung-hwan, were not included.



In particular, it is reported that Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon expressed his opposition to the former president's amnesty.



In a recent opinion poll, more than half of the opposition to Lee's amnesty appeared to have acted on the judgment that if a politician's amnesty was enforced, it could further adversely affect the low approval rating of the 20% level of state affairs.



In response, Lee Jae-oh, a standing adviser to the people's power, pro-Lee Gye-Chairman, said that former President Lee said that he may not need amnesty if it helps run state affairs.



On the other hand, Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, as well as some of the heads of large corporations, and the people's livelihood instructors are said to be included in the amnesty.



The government will hold an ad hoc cabinet meeting tomorrow and announce the candidates for Liberation Day amnesty.



Regarding the exclusion of politicians' pardons, Daegu Mayor Hong Jun-pyo expressed his regret that pardons are based on politics, not prosecutors, and Park Hong-geun, floor leader of the Democratic Party, said that it is important to include the meaning of national unity.