United Future Party Activates Party Affairs Audit Committee... "Party Affairs Audit to Begin from September"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyemin] The United Future Party activated its Party Affairs Audit Committee on the 7th and will conduct evaluations of regional party member councils starting next month.

The United Future Party announced that on this day, Party Affairs Audit Committee Chairman Lee Yang-hee and five committee members received their appointment letters and began full-scale activities.

The Party Affairs Audit Committee held its first meeting on the same day and decided to conduct a party affairs audit this year. The audit will begin with special party affairs audits in Seoul, Busan, and Gyeongnam regions starting in September. The audit targets include all city and provincial party organizations as well as all external party member councils.

Chairman Lee stated, "Regardless of political party, party affairs audit activities have so far been passive, merely providing justification for political decisions by party leadership," and added, "Because of this, the general assessment is that these activities have been insufficient in laying the foundation for party innovation that meets the expectations of the public."

He emphasized, "Future audit activities will be conducted more independently and transparently than ever before, based on expertise."

At the meeting, the committee members announced, "We will first re-examine the party affairs audit methodology, which has conventionally focused heavily on quantitative evaluation, from the ground up."

Meanwhile, Park Jin-ho, a former aide to ex-assemblyman Baek Seung-ju, was appointed as the vice chairman of the Party Affairs Audit Committee. Committee members appointed include Professor Ha Yoon-hee from the party secretariat and lawyers Park Ki-sung, Jeon Ji-hyun, and Choi Mi-yeon. The United Future Party explained, "This Party Affairs Audit Committee is composed of 67% women and 50% youth, aiming to respond to the voices of a changing society and the party's significant expectations."

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