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The Democratic Party plans to introduce a proposal to dismiss Minister Lee Sang-min tomorrow (30th).
Furthermore, it was confirmed as a result of SBS coverage that an external law firm's legal review was also conducted to promote the impeachment of Minister Lee.
The opposition movement has made the presidential office's stance stronger.
This is reporter Jang Min-seong's exclusive report.
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general assembly of Democratic Party lawmakers held over a proposal to dismiss Lee Sang-min as Minister of Public Administration and Security.
After discrepancies were exposed on when to propose a motion for dismissal and whether to promote impeachment rather than a motion for dismissal, the in-house leadership was left with the timing and method.
The leadership said that it is a 'plan' to propose a dismissal proposal tomorrow.
[Park Hong-geun/Democratic Party Representative: The Democratic Party (Democratic Party) is saying that it will take all measures to find out the truth of the disaster, including a government investigation, dismissal proposal, impeachment bill, as well as the introduction of a special prosecutor.]
The possibility of immediately proposing an impeachment bill is also mentioned In fact, the Democratic Party commissioned an external law firm early last week to advise whether it was possible to impeach Lee, and a 21-page opinion was delivered to the party yesterday.
This corporation is LKB Partners, which took on a number of Democratic Party personnel-related cases in the past.
Upon obtaining and examining the written opinion, it was written that Minister Lee did not make any preventive efforts before the Itaewon disaster occurred, received reports late at the time of the disaster and gave belated instructions, and also tried to avoid responsibility even after the disaster occurred.
As a result, it was judged that impeachment proceedings are possible for violating the 'obligation to realize the public interest' as a public official stipulated in the Constitution and the law and the 'obligation to prevent disasters' as the final officer in charge of disaster safety.
The power of the people held an emergency executive meeting and linked the decision to boycott the government investigation with the Democratic Party’s final decision.
[Ho-Young Joo/President of People's Power: If the Democratic Party makes a decision, our response may change depending on it, but if a proposal for dismissal is made, it is a breach of agreement.
] It makes no sense to ask the minister to step down, and if that happens, the government investigation will be carried out by themselves,” he said, announcing a tougher stance than the ruling party.