10 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Na Kyung Won, vice president of a South Korean presidential committee and member of the Korean People’s Power Party (PPP), formation of the current Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has resigned on Tuesday after various criticisms against him.
Na, a former Seoul mayoral candidate, has resigned from her post as vice chair of the President’s Committee on Population Policy and Aging Society after the presidential office criticized her for making unilateral decisions on the budget to curb casualties. birth rates in the country.
However, a senior official has told the Yonhap news agency that Yoon has not heard of the resignation, so the dispute has sparked speculation that the president may be against Na in the possibility of her taking over. PPP leadership.
LEE CRITICIZES THE JUDGMENT AGAINST HIM
Amid these tensions within the ruling party, the leader of the opposition, Lee Jae Myung, of the Democratic Party (DP), criticized the trial against him on Tuesday in the framework of an urban corruption scandal.
Lee has specified during a session at the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office that the prosecution has “political motivations” against him, claiming that he is a victim in the judicial process, so he will confidently oppose” the investigation, as reported the newspaper ‘The Korea Times’.
Lee is being investigated for allegedly receiving 847 million won (about 600,400 euros) in opaque funds from the real estate sector, a case in which Yoo Dong-gyu, former interim president of Seongnam Development Corporation, and Kim Yong are also implicated. , your trusted man.
The South Korean Justice is investigating whether the money was used to finance Lee’s presidential campaign in the opposition party’s elections in November, in which he ran against his rival, Yoon Seok Youl, the current Korean president.
