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Lawmaker immunity.
(From The Korea Herald)
The new 17th National Assembly made a fatal mistake when it voted on Tuesday against an administration-submitted motion to arrest a lawmaker charged with a crime. Political parties and their lawmakers reneged on their campaign promise to restrict lawmaker privileges, including that of immunity.
The vote dashed high public expectations that the new National Assembly, whose term started a month ago, would differ from its predecessor, which killed 15 such motions and even voted to free a lawmaker arrested on charges of breaching the political funding law. Talk of political reform or new politics does not sound convincing any longer.
The primary responsibility lay with the main opposition Grand National Party, with which the suspect lawmaker is affiliated. Though the party did not demand its lawmakers vote against the motion, its leadership did claim that he was victimized, as he was one of those targeted by law-enforcement agencies for criminal investigations.
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