United Future Party's Joo Ho-young: "Hypocritical Regime Dividing Even Over 'Me Too', Must Apologize for Real Estate 'Big Failure'"

Joo Ho-young, Floor Leader, Severely Criticizes Moon Administration in Negotiation Group Representative Speech

Joo Ho-young, floor leader of the United Future Party, is delivering a speech as the representative of the negotiating group at the National Assembly plenary session on the 21st. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hye-min] On the 21st, Joo Ho-young, floor leader of the United Future Party, strongly criticized the Moon Jae-in administration as a "morally bankrupt totalitarian regime." He said, "The reality of the administration, which came to power by gaining the people's votes by advocating fairness, justice, and women-friendly policies, was hypocrisy and shamelessness," and vowed, "I will expose all the hypocrisy of the past three years."

During the negotiation group leaders' speech held at the National Assembly plenary session that morning, Floor Leader Joo enumerated the government's and ruling party's mistakes one by one, saying, "If we want national unity and policy success, we should not create a 'rubber-stamp parliament' but genuinely engage in cooperation."

Regarding the three years of the Moon administration, he evaluated, "In a situation where presidential power, local power, judicial power, media power, and even civil society power have been perfectly controlled, the last remaining parliamentary power has also been completely seized, establishing a battle-ready posture," adding, "It is becoming a one-party dictatorship, a totalitarian state."

Responding to Kim Tae-nyeon, floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, emphasizing 'cooperation' the day before, he criticized, "The people are only confused as the National Assembly is busy not just following but defending presidential power," and questioned, "Is the cooperation they talk about merely agreeing without opposing what the president and the Democratic Party do?"

He also denounced the values the Moon administration claimed to uphold?fairness and justice, human rights and equality, judicial independence, and women-friendly policies?as all illusions. Floor Leader Joo quoted a line from the song "Irony" recently released by folk singer Ahn Chi-hwan: "Not even worth a penny, flattering the blind power, wearing the armband of crumbs," pointing out, "As the song title suggests, the reality of the Moon administration is contradictory and ironic."

He criticized the Moon administration's attitude toward power-related sexual crimes involving former Chungnam Governor Ahn Hee-jung, former Busan Mayor Oh Keo-don, and the late Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon. Floor Leader Joo said, "They are dividing sides and camps even in the #MeToo movement," and rebuked, "Where else in the world is there such arrogance as Democratic Party leader Lee Hae-chan's attitude of 'We are right and you are wrong,' who shamelessly hurled insults at the people?" He proposed forming a special committee at the National Assembly level to investigate the facts and establish measures to prevent recurrence related to the late Mayor Park's sexual harassment case.

He also sharply criticized the Moon administration's real estate policies as a "great failure." Floor Leader Joo said, "This stubborn administration only tries to suppress the normal demand of ordinary citizens who want a good environment and a good home by regarding it as an unhealthy desire and greed," and criticized, "Ideology and incompetence cannot beat the market." He added, "The solution is deregulation and expanding supply," and said, "Despite the skyrocketing housing prices, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kim Hyun-mi and the economic team, who do not even know what is wrong, should be promptly dismissed, and the president should apologize."

Floor Leader Joo warned, "The president said he would create a 'country where the people are happy' and 'a country where my life improves,' but the people cynically say the only thing kept from his inaugural speech is 'a country never experienced before,'" adding, "The president's term is less than two years left, and the media has begun to mention the president's lame-duck period." He urged, "It is a misconception to think that pushing everything through by force will easily produce government achievements and lay the foundation for re-election; true cooperation must begin."

He emphasized, "The United Future Party will be reborn and build a proper country." He said, "Based on strong security, we will lead North Korea's denuclearization, induce openness and dialogue, and create a 'growth discourse with distribution,'" and added, "We will become a responsible party that achieves the values of liberal democracy and market economy through responsibility and dedication and protects the foundation of the Republic of Korea."

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