Joo Ho-young "Concurrent Inside and Outside Struggles... Will Specifically Consider Methods of Outside Struggle"

Joo Ho-young, floor leader of the United Future Party, is attending an emergency party meeting held at the National Assembly on the 29th and delivering an opening remark. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

[Asia Economy reporters Lee Ji-eun and Lim Chun-han] The United Future Party has finally taken out the card of "street protests" to oppose the ruling party.

Joo Ho-young, the floor leader of the United Future Party, said to reporters after holding an emergency party meeting at the National Assembly on the 29th, "We will pursue both inside and outside the National Assembly struggles, but we will consider the specific methods of outside protests more carefully."

In this regard, Jeong Jin-seok, the most senior member of the party, also stated, "He proposed a parallel struggle both inside and outside the National Assembly."

Floor leader Joo said, "Looking at the situation yesterday and today, even now, looking at the Judiciary Committee situation, our National Assembly has completely disappeared," and criticized, "They set the legislative schedule arbitrarily and did not follow the order of bills, pushing only their own bills forward."

He said, "If there is a related law, it should be reviewed jointly, and the Housing Lease Protection Act should be reviewed together, but the bills submitted by our members are not being reviewed jointly," adding, "I am speechless at this kind of dictatorship."

Floor leader Joo said, "If you have 176 seats, did the people give you the authority to disregard procedures and act arbitrarily?" and added, "How important the impact of this law on the people is. They are shifting the responsibility for the skyrocketing house prices caused by their failure in housing policy to the wrong place."

He continued, "They are doing this without even checking whether this law will lower house prices or, like the previous 22 policies, go in the opposite direction," and said, "they want to pass it unconditionally before the August 4th extraordinary session without following proper procedures. Shouldn't we extend the National Assembly to review it properly?"

He explained, "We held a party meeting for nearly two hours. The standing committees are overwhelmed, and although the ruling party will act recklessly, we will point out the procedural unfairness, deficiencies in the bills, and side effects one by one," adding, "There are no bills to be passed immediately, but in the committees where we have control, we will use parliamentary procedure speeches to say 'We cannot cooperate with this kind of National Assembly operation.'"

Floor leader Joo said, "The important thing in the opening negotiation is the 'principle of consensus processing,'" and "we ask the public to look closely at the situation in the National Assembly and to stop the Democratic Party's violence and tyranny," he said. The United Future Party plans to visit the Speaker's office to protest immediately after the party meeting and hold an additional party meeting at 9 a.m. on the 30th to review the direction of the struggle.

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