2024-06-11 07:24:53
The twenty second Nationwide Meeting started with an all-out battle between the ruling and opposition events. The Democratic Celebration of Korea opened the Nationwide Meeting by itself for the primary time in constitutional historical past with a majority of seats, and in addition single-handedly elected the chairman of the standing committee, which is the fundamental unit of settlement between the ruling and opposition events, heralding a break in cooperative governance.
Based on the political circles on the eleventh, on the plenary session the day before today, the Democratic Celebration dominated the election of 11 standing committee chairs, together with the Laws, Judiciary, Administration, Science, Know-how, Broadcasting and Communications Committee.
The Individuals Energy Celebration didn’t attend the assembly because the Democratic Celebration pushed forward with the plenary session the night time earlier than. The day earlier than, Individuals Energy Celebration flooring chief Choo Kyung-ho held a condemnation rally outdoors the primary convention corridor the place the standing committee chairman vote was in progress and criticized, saying, “In the present day, the Democratic Celebration is useless, and the Nationwide Meeting is useless.”
The Democratic Celebration’s dominance has been nicely anticipated. Within the April 10 basic election, the Democratic Celebration, which advocated judgment of the regime, swept 175 seats. The Individuals Energy Celebration, which received 108 seats, was solely capable of safe a veto re-approval and a constitutional modification block towards the full 192 seats of the opposition occasion. They’re at an awesome drawback in a confrontation with the Democratic Celebration, which is main the wrestle towards the federal government.
‘Public sentiment within the basic election’ is getting used as a justification for the Democratic Celebration’s plan to safe all standing committee chairs and launch an all-out legislative marketing campaign. Per week after the opening of the Nationwide Meeting, the Democratic Celebration started to re-introduce the ‘Marine Corps Particular Prosecutor Act’, ‘Particular Prosecutor Kim Kun-hee Act’, ‘3 Broadcasting Act’, ‘Yellow Bag Act’, and ‘Grain Administration Act’, which had been abolished because of the President’s veto within the twenty first Nationwide Meeting.
On the fifth, the Democratic Celebration convened the primary plenary session of the twenty second Nationwide Meeting with out the participation of the Individuals Energy Celebration and elected the Nationwide Meeting Speaker. There’s a precedent for the Democratic Celebration, the twenty first ruling occasion, to open the Nationwide Meeting alone, however that is the primary time in constitutional historical past that the opposition occasion opened the Nationwide Meeting alone with out the ruling occasion attending.
The Individuals Energy Celebration, which opposed the Democratic Celebration’s runaway, adopted a decision calling for the resignation of Nationwide Meeting Speaker Woo Received-sik on the basic assembly this morning with 108 occasion members and submitted it to the Nationwide Meeting’s Laws Division. In the interim, it’s anticipated that the invoice will likely be mentioned by 15 particular committees on individuals’s livelihood points created throughout the occasion and the boycott of the Nationwide Meeting’s standing committee will proceed. The particular committee is anticipated to additionally overview the announcement and implementation of ‘enforcement ordinances’ enacted or revised by order of the President.
Because the confrontation between the main ruling and opposition events continues, there are predictions that the political scenario will freeze from the beginning of the twenty second Nationwide Meeting. If the Individuals Energy Celebration continues to refuse to function the standing committee, there’s a excessive risk that the Democratic Celebration will take over the chairmanship of the political affairs, planning and finance, overseas affairs and unification, nationwide protection, trade, commerce, assets, small and medium-sized enterprise enterprises, info, and ladies and household committees that had been left to the ruling occasion.
The day earlier than, flooring chief Choo mentioned, “Irrespective of how arduous we attempt to cease it, Consultant Lee Jae-myung’s judicial danger is turning into a actuality, and the Democratic Celebration’s tearful try to bulletproof Lee Jae-myung can’t succeed.” “Now there is no such thing as a true Speaker of the Nationwide Meeting on this nation,” he emphasised.
Then again, Park Chan-dae, the Democratic Celebration’s flooring chief, mentioned, “We’ll instantly activate the standing committee shaped yesterday. We’ll instantly demand studies from ministries and departments, and if they don’t reply, we’ll maintain hearings.” He added, “For points that require a authorities investigation, we’ll push for a authorities investigation and conduct it in the course of the extraordinary session in accordance with the Nationwide Meeting Act.” “We may also pursue inquiries to the federal government which can be anticipated to be requested,” he predicted.
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2024-06-11 07:24:53