The Seoul High Court has received the records back from the Supreme Court concerning the election law case against Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung.  

The high court said the records arrived Friday morning, a day after the Supreme Court remanded Lee’s case for a retrial after finding fault with the March ruling that saw him acquitted of lying as a presidential candidate during the 2022 election campaign.

The case will not be assigned to the same high court division that issued the ruling in March, and a decision will be made soon as to which division should handle the retrial.

Observers believe a ruling is unlikely to come out before the June 3 presidential election, as the process normally takes more than a month.