Yoon Sang-hyun "Ruling Party Runs Wild Ignoring Opposition... Opposition Has No Choice but to Fight"
[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] Independent lawmaker Yoon Sang-hyun criticized the ruling party's reckless passage of numerous real estate laws on the 28th without committee review, calling it a "ruling party's rampage," and raised his voice saying, "The opposition has no choice but to fight."
On the 29th, Yoon said on Facebook, "Despite the public's boiling anger over the government's successive real estate failures, the parliamentary standing committees moved swiftly as if competing for loyalty, ignoring everything else."
Yoon pointed out, "In protest against the government's real estate policies, posts saying 'Is the country yours?' appeared as trending search terms on portal sites, and the people have started holding candlelight vigils again. Amid this, yesterday in the National Assembly, the ruling party's rampage was carried out as 11 real estate-related bills were suddenly passed en masse through the relevant standing committees such as the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, the Strategy and Finance Committee, and the Public Administration and Security Committee."
He criticized, "In the standing committees, procedures stipulated by the National Assembly Act such as subcommittee review reports, detailed examination, and pros and cons debates were completely ignored and the bills were immediately put to a vote. In some standing committees, there was no agreement on the agenda, and in others, even the very basic procedure of including cost estimates from the National Assembly Budget Office for bills involving budgets was disregarded."
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Yoon said, "No matter how much the ruling power controls the National Assembly, if the ruling party flaunts its majority power and ignores the opposition, it means the National Assembly is being ignored, and ultimately the people are being ignored. In such a case, the opposition has no choice but to fight."
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