Jae-ok Yoon “Unnecessary conflict in the National Assembly”
“I don’t expect people to see this.”
Hong Ik-pyo “I too am ‘opposition for the sake of opposition’
“I do not agree with this kind of National Assembly operation.”
Democratic Party cannot decide on party line on Lee Kyun-yong’s appointment
Opposition and opposition parties fail to reach agreement on Shin Won-sik hearing report
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Jae-ok Yoon (left), floor leader of the People’s Power Party, and Hong Ik-pyo (right), floor leader of the Democratic Party. Floor leaders of the ruling and opposition parties held a meeting on the 4th and agreed to hold a personnel hearing on the next day, the 5th, for Kim Haeng, the candidate for Minister of Gender Equality and Family who had repeatedly failed. did. It is a positive first greeting in that it opens the door to communication, but the Democratic Party of Korea is in a negative mood not only about candidate Kim but also about the vote on the appointment motion for Supreme Court Justice candidate Lee Kyun-yong, which will be held at the plenary session on the 6th, so the antagonism between the two parties is expected to continue.
Democratic Party floor leader Hong Ik-pyo and the party’s new floor leadership paid a courtesy visit to People Power Party floor leader Yoon Jae-ok for the inauguration ceremony this afternoon. Floor Leader Yoon congratulated Floor Leader Hong on his inauguration and said, “The people do not expect unnecessary conflict over the small agenda of the National Assembly,” and the Democratic Party independently approved the hearing schedule for Candidate Kim (5th) on the 27th of last month. expressed dissatisfaction with
In response, floor leader Hong also said, “I do not agree with the National Assembly being run in a way that prevents results by unnecessarily calling for ‘opposition for the sake of opposition’ or magnifying small differences,” and soon both sides decided to hold Candidate Kim’s confirmation hearing on the 5th. It was agreed to open. Accordingly, candidate Kim, who had previously announced his intention to not attend the hearing due to the failure to reach an agreement on the agenda between the ruling and opposition parties, is also expected to attend.
However, there is an assessment that the room for compromise will narrow as the Democratic Party takes on a hard-line stance in light of the fact that Floor Leader Hong selected Rep. Park Joo-min, who led the legislation to ‘complete inspection’ (completely depriving the prosecution of its investigative power), as the senior vice-president of the House to lead the negotiations within the National Assembly. It comes out. Prior to the meeting, floor leader Hong visited the Seoul National Cemetery and met with reporters, announcing a policy of strengthening the struggle for democracy, saying, “We will protect democracy by preventing the Yoon Seok-yeol government’s self-righteousness and dictatorship.”
At the general meeting of members that day, the Democratic Party discussed whether to adopt the party’s platform to reject the motion to appoint Lee candidate at the plenary session of the National Assembly on the 6th, but was unable to reach a conclusion and decided to make the final decision at the general meeting of members just before the plenary session on the 6th. The Democratic Party, which holds 168 seats, which is the majority of the registered lawmakers, is highly likely to vote on the appointment motion alone. In this case, it is the second time in history since the nomination motion for Supreme Court Chief Justice candidate Jeong Ki-seung was rejected in 1988.
Yoo Sang-beom, chief spokesperson for the People Power Party, criticized the Democratic Party’s efforts to gather party opinions to effectively reject the motion to appoint Lee candidate, saying, “Isn’t this a shallow trick to try to influence the trial of Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myeong by taming the judiciary?”
In addition, floor leader Hong announced at the general meeting that he would definitely pass the motion to designate a fast-track agenda for the special prosecution law to investigate the truth about the death of Corporal Chae of the Marine Corps at the plenary session on the 6th. However, for this to happen, it needs to be submitted ex officio by National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo.
The ruling and opposition parties were unable to agree on the adoption of a progress report on the confirmation hearing for Minister of National Defense candidate Shin Won-sik, which is set to expire today, effectively failing to do so. The People Power Party proposed a plan to write down both qualified and unqualified opinions on the new candidate, but the Democratic Party stuck to its unqualified opinion.
Reporters Ha Jong-hoon and Son Ji-eun
2023-10-04 12:28:58
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