Seoul Mayor's Acquittal Offers Chance for PPP Housecleaning
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Seoul mayor's acquittal offers chance for PPP housecleaning
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon saw the clouds that loomed over his political career all but disappear Friday. An appellate court acquitted the five-term mayor of violating the Political Funds Act over allegations that a supporter paid for his opinion polling. Had the ruling not been overturned and he had been slapped with a fine of 1 million won ($755) or more, Oh would have been unseated and barred from running for elected office for five years. The ma…
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporters Park Jae-ha and Jung Yeon-sol = The Democratic Party of Korea reacted angrily on the 26th to the not-guilty verdict in the appeal trial regarding the allegations of paying for opinion polls on behalf of others...
On the 26th, the leadership of the Democratic Party of Korea criticized the acquittal of Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon in the appeal trial of the "Myeong Tae-gyun poll cost payment" case, calling it the "politicization of the judiciary." Calls for the introduction of "AI judges" were also raised.
"Starting today, I will prepare a bill to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) judges," said Choi Min-hee, a Supreme Council member of the Democratic Party of Korea, at a meeting held at the National Assembly on the 26th.
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