Hong Jun-pyo's Evaluation of Government Questioning: "Ministers Who Are Not Competent Eye Opposition Lawmakers"

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] Former Liberty Korea Party leader Hong Joon-pyo criticized the opposition party's questioning of the government, saying, "Incompetent ministers glare at opposition lawmakers being criticized in the National Assembly plenary session." He also pointed out the opposition's "lack of capability," saying, "I suddenly have doubts about whether they can really regain power."

On the 25th, former leader Hong said on Facebook, "No matter how badly they did, they were confident, and now they are the mainstream of the Republic of Korea."

He added, "Even when the audience jeers at the questioning opposition lawmakers, they pay no attention, and their National Assembly proceeds arrogantly like that. When they were the opposition, they united tightly and took power from us, but with our still loose coalition and some fashion conservatives causing trouble in the opposition, I have doubts about whether we can really regain power with such a track record."

Regarding the 'colorism' controversy that arose during the government questioning on the 22nd, former leader Hong said, "The most critical agenda of the Ministry of Unification minister's confirmation hearing is ideological verification. This is especially true if the candidate has a history of pro-North activities." He criticized, "To call it colorism over questions like whether the candidate has ever held Juche ideology or has ever defected during the confirmation hearing is an utterly unreasonable attack."

This was a criticism of the ruling coalition lawmakers who criticized Future United Party lawmaker Tae Young-ho for asking candidate Lee In-young about his defection status, which sparked the colorism controversy. He said, "How can someone with the intellectual capacity to not distinguish between colorism and essentialism be called a member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea?" He added, "It is a shameless response to evade the essence by bringing up colorism, which only worked during the Fifth Republic era, when the question should be understood as it is and the answers left to the judgment of the people."

He continued, "It would have been much more impressive if the answer had been, 'I was once deeply immersed in Juche ideology, but not anymore.'"

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