The National Assembly Impeachment Impeachment Committee, which will take on the role of prosecutor in the impeachment trial of President Yoon Seok-yeol, was formed on the 16th. There are a total of 11 people, and the impeachment prosecution team is headed by Chung Cheong-rae, chairman of the Legislation and Judiciary Committee.
According to the Democratic Party of Korea, Chairman Chung will serve as the head of the impeachment prosecution team, and Rep. Choi Ki-sang will serve as secretary and spokesperson. Other members of the impeachment committee include Democratic Party lawmakers Park Beom-gye, Lee Chun-seok, Lee Seong-yoon, Park Kyun-taek, Kim Ki-pyo, Park Seon-won, and Lee Yong-woo, National Reform Party lawmaker Park Eun-jung, and New Reform Party lawmaker Cheon Har-ram.
The impeachment prosecution team will act as a type of prosecutor in the Constitutional Court’s impeachment trial of President Yoon. At the time of former President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment in 2016, the impeachment prosecution team was headed by People Power Party floor leader Kwon Seong-dong, who was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and consisted of a total of nine people, including Rep. Jang Je-won of the Saenuri Party, Rep. Oh Shin-hwan of the Saenuri Party, Rep. Beom-gye Park of the Democratic Party, Rep. Park Joo-min and Chun-seok Lee, Rep. Kim Kwan-yeong of the People’s Party, and Rep. Lee Jeong-mi of the Justice Party. I have been active.
President Yoon also formed a defense team that day and began preparing for a mandatory investigation and impeachment trial. Former Chairman of the Korea Communications Commission Kim Hong-il, President Yoon’s senior prosecutor, was chosen to represent the defense team.
The Constitutional Court announced that the first argument preparation date for President Yoon’s impeachment trial will be held at 2 p.m. on the 27th. It was discovered that the presiding judge in this case was Constitutional Court Justice Jeong Hyeong-sik, who was directly appointed by President Yoon.
Kim Hye-rin, Donga.com reporter [email protected]
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