Yeo: "Difficult to Reach Agreement on Today's National Assembly Organization... No Change in Opposition's Attitude"

"Create a Settlement Team and Urgently Deploy to Prepare for Settlement Review Before Reorganization"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Myunghwan] The People Power Party stated on the 15th regarding the negotiations for the second half National Assembly organization, "Since there has been no change in the attitude of the Democratic Party of Korea and no contact so far, it is difficult to reach an agreement today."

Song Eon-seok, the party's chief deputy floor leader, held an emergency press briefing at the National Assembly in the afternoon and said, "We sincerely apologize to the public and it is a regrettable situation."

Song said, "We have done our best to complete the floor organization negotiations by the 17th, but there has been no change in the Democratic Party's attitude since they declared the talks broke down yesterday," and criticized, "Especially regarding the Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, they are framing it as if we have some intention to seize control of broadcasting."

He added, "There are many urgent livelihood issues right now, and realistically, the government must complete the budget settlement review for last year's expenditures by August," and announced, "Therefore, even before the organization is finalized, we have decided to urgently assign lawmakers to form a 'settlement team' to thoroughly prepare for the budget settlements of each ministry."

He continued, "Each lawmaker will be separately notified about which settlement preparation team they will join, and from that point, our party will thoroughly prepare for the work of each ministry, important issues, policies, and bills to be promoted regardless of the organization negotiations."

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