Achieving 100,000 Signatures for National Assembly Petition Urging Presidential Impeachment
[Asia Economy Reporter Park Cheol-eung] The petition urging the impeachment of President Moon Jae-in, which was posted on the National Assembly's National Consent Petition platform, reached 100,000 supporters on the 2nd.
The National Consent Petition system, introduced by the National Assembly this year, requires the Assembly to obligatorily review any petition that gathers more than 100,000 supporters within 30 days of its launch. This petition was posted on the 28th of last month and met the requirement in just four days.
Unlike the Blue House's National Petition, this system refers petitions to the relevant standing committee in the same way as other bills proposed by lawmakers. The committee reviews the petition and either submits it to the plenary session or discards it. If it is brought to the plenary session, the committee chair reports the review results, and after deliberation, a vote is held to decide whether to adopt it.
The impeachment-related petition is expected to be discussed by the Legislation and Judiciary Committee. The petitioner, Mr. Han, stated, "Regarding the current Wuhan pneumonia (COVID-19) situation, the more I observe President Moon Jae-in's response, the more it feels like watching the president of China rather than the president of the Republic of Korea." He added, "Domestically, mask prices have surged more than tenfold and shortages persist, making it difficult for citizens to purchase masks, yet the president has provided 3 million masks to China and has not taken any measures to address the soaring mask prices."
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He continued, "While giving Chinese people good masks, hand sanitizers, and even lunch boxes, our country's medical staff are served inadequate meals, and doctors dispatched to Daegu are told to arrange their own accommodations. Is this the behavior of a country's president? He said COVID-19 will soon end, economic activities can resume, and large-scale events can proceed. So what is the result? We can no longer just watch."
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