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The Democratic Party of Korea announced that it would yield the position of chairperson of the Judiciary, which was the biggest issue in the original composition of the National Assembly, to the power of the people.
Park Hong-eun, floor leader of the Democratic Party, held a press conference at the National Assembly today and said, “The Democratic Party will respect and implement the agreement between the floor leaders of both parties last year.”
Park said, “Uri Party lawmakers cannot predict when the economic crisis in Korea will end or how far the impact will be. “I agree that the role is a very important moment,” he said.
“They agreed that the Democratic Party should take the lead in preventing the Yoon Seok-yeol regime from monopolizing the government, which is moving toward political retaliation and privatization of power, by putting the people’s livelihood and economy first by standing on the side of the people by promptly normalizing the National Assembly,” he said.
However, floor leader Park said, “Instead, the People’s Power will also promise to implement the previous agreement between the two parties.”
“We need to restore trust between the ruling and opposition parties by mutually implementing the agreement,” he said.
At the time of last year, the Democratic Party and Kim Ki-hyeon, floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea and Kim Ki-hyun, the People’s Power floor leader at the time, said that the People’s Power would take over as the chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the second half of the 21st National Assembly, along with the reduction of the Judiciary Committee’s bill review period from 120 days to 60 days. agreed to, etc.
“The promise that the people’s power will take charge of the Judiciary Committee, of course (the Judiciary Committee) only conducts a systemic self-examination to prevent abuse of power,” said floor leader Park. I’ll just give you this corresponding answer,” he emphasized.
In addition, the formation of a private special committee promised by floor leader Kwon Seong-dong at the time of the separation of the prosecution’s investigation and prosecution powers in May was also mentioned as a condition.
Floor leader Park criticized President Yoon Seok-yeol’s request for retransmission of a report on the progress of hearings on ministerial candidates, saying, “The National Assembly is negotiating with the ruling and opposition parties, and it is unacceptable for the National Assembly to ignore it and proceed with the appointment.”
When asked about the schedule for the personnel hearing, he said, “It depends on what kind of answer the people’s power will bring by next Monday.” .
