It was found that Rep. Jeong Chung-rae of the Democratic Party, who served as the chairman of the Science Technology Broadcasting and Communications Committee of the National Assembly, spent virtually all of the budget for overseas visits allocated to the defense ministry this year before stepping down as chairman. Some in the political world are pointing out that even though the replacement of the standing chairperson was already scheduled, Rep. Jeong unreasonably spent the entire budget for overseas visits.
According to the National Assembly on the 5th, Rep. Chung spent 54.58 million won out of the 55.13 million won allocated for overseas inspection expenses during his tenure as chairman of the defense committee. The remaining overseas visit expenses are only 550,000 won.
From February 26th to March 5th, Congressman Chung embarked on a site inspection of ‘Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023’, the world’s largest mobile communication exhibition held in Barcelona, Spain, along with Supreme Council member Goh Jung-jeong of the same party and independent member of the Democratic Party, Park Wan-joo. . Members of the People’s Power did not attend. A member of the ruling party, a member of the over-defense, said, “Initially, Rep. Kim Young-sik of the People’s Power was supposed to go, but he was unable to attend due to party conventions, etc.” In particular, at this time, the March extraordinary session of the National Assembly was held at the request of the Democratic Party.
Chung Cheong-rae, then chairman of the National Assembly’s Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting and Communications Committee (first from left), Democratic Party lawmaker Go Min-jeong (second from left), and independent lawmaker Park Wan-joo (center) attended the world’s largest mobile telecommunications exhibition held in Barcelona, Spain on February 28 (local time). They are visiting the KT booth at the ‘Mobile World Congress’ (MWC 2023). newsis
In addition, unlike the usual practice of the National Assembly, which was to visit overseas around December to January, which is the break period after the regular National Assembly in September, I went on a business trip in February and March because of the MWC.
As a result, some in the political world criticize that Rep. Chung broke the usual practice and made a schedule to visit overseas before the replacement of the head of the department was scheduled. As Rep. Chung spent almost all of the budget for overseas visits, it is known that it is difficult for lawmakers belonging to the over-defense group to go on overseas inspections at the standing committee level this year.
A member of the People’s Power of Over-Defense said, “Isn’t it a bit wrong to use all the budget for business trips between Democratic Party lawmakers in fact?”
Another member of the ruling party who belongs to the overdefense group also said, “It seems that the non-Democratic Party filled the independent member of Congressman Park,” and said, “Isn’t it according to the standard to have one person each from the chairman, the ruling party, and the 1st opposition party?”
Reporter Lee Sang-heon [email protected]
2023-06-05 09:38:00
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