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The ruling and opposition parties quarreled after suspicions emerged that Democratic lawmakers were included in a group chat room encouraging a candlelight vigil to commemorate the Itaewon disaster.

He criticized the people's power as political incitement, and the Democratic Party countered that it had nothing to do with the party as a malicious frame.



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This is the telegram group chat room of 'Lee Shim Min-shim', a support group for the Democratic Party leader Jae-myung Lee.



This is a notice posted on this chat room a few days ago to encourage participation in the candlelight vigil on the 19th.



In addition to the rally calling for the resignation of President Yun Seok-yeol, he introduced the use of vehicles, saying that he would add a demand for accountability for the Itaewon disaster.



However, suspicions have been raised through the Chosun Ilbo that the representative of this group is from the Citizens Communication Headquarters at the presidential campaign, representative of Lee Jae-myung, and that about 10 Democratic Party lawmakers, including former President Song Young-gil and floor leader Park Hong-geun, were included in the list of participants in the Telegram conversation.



He criticized the fact that the Democratic Party was mobilized for the People's Power, and that it was following Lee Jae-myung, not Itaewon.



[Jang Dong-hyuk/People's Power spokesperson: The cost of using precious lives and even the people's sorrow for political incitement will never be small.]



The Democratic Party immediately rebutted that it had nothing to do with the party.



[Yoo Gi-hong/Director of the National Memorial Team at the Itaewon Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters of the Democratic Party: The fact that it had to go down through the party's official organization line, but there was no such thing, that it was a civic group's own memorial culture festival, and that the party had not officially participated in it...

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Democratic lawmakers who were in the chat room also explained in a phone call with SBS, "It is one of several chat rooms that were unilaterally invited" and "I had no idea what kind of conversations were taking place."



A key official from Lee Jae-myung's side said, "We are considering a legal response to the Chosun Ilbo, which raised suspicions, saying, "We are linking simple support groups with the party with a malicious frame."



(Video coverage: Kim Heung-gi, video editing: Yumira)