Park Chan-dae "Are They Violent Forces in the National Assembly... Disband the Fake Standing Committee" Fierce Attack by People Power Party

Park Chan-dae Criticizes Ruling Party for "Disregarding the National Assembly"
"Speaker Woo Won-shik, Please Open the Assembly and Make a Decision"

Park Chan-dae, the floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, said, "Choo Kyung-ho, the floor leader of the People Power Party, said he genuinely wants to work," and urged, "If so, quickly dissolve the fake standing committee and join the official standing committee to form the remaining seven standing committee chairpersons." This remark targeted the People Power Party's installation of a special committee within the party while boycotting the floor standing committees, engaging in 'special committee politics' outside the National Assembly. The Democratic Party proposed holding a plenary session on the 20th to complete the formation of the seven standing committees.

At the floor strategy meeting held at the National Assembly on the morning of the 18th, Floor Leader Park said, "It has already been the third week since the 22nd National Assembly's term began, but the National Assembly has only been half-normalized," and claimed, "Though it is called a boycott of the National Assembly, the ruling party's behavior is illegal, holding the National Assembly and the people hostage and exercising a kind of violence." He further criticized, "President Yoon Seok-yeol once disparaged construction workers as 'Geonpok' (construction gangsters), and by the same logic, is the People Power Party a 'Gukpok' (National Assembly gangsters), a violent force in the National Assembly?" Moreover, he added, "As the ruling party, how long will you paralyze the National Assembly while ignoring the piled-up urgent livelihood issues?"

Park Chan-dae, floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, is presiding over the floor countermeasure meeting at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on the morning of the 18th. [Image source=Yonhap News]

Floor Leader Park defined the People Power Party's purpose of continuing politics outside the National Assembly as "to shield President Yoon and First Lady Kim Keon-hee," raising his criticism of the People Power Party. He said, "Unless their intention is to delay as much as possible to block the special investigation law for the fallen Marine soldiers and the special investigation law for Kim Keon-hee, why would they make such illegal no-work demands?" and added, "It can only be interpreted as a blatant attempt to use negotiations as an excuse to stall." He continued, "We can no longer endure and wait for the People Power Party, which refuses to work," and said, "The patience of the people has also reached its limit."

On the same day, Floor Leader Park demanded a 'decision' from National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik. He said, "Next month on the 19th marks the first anniversary of the fallen Marine soldiers, and the cries of self-employed people are heard every day," and requested, "(Speaker Woo) not to ignore the people's pain, not to give up on a working National Assembly, and to promptly hold a plenary session to finalize the organization of the National Assembly." He also emphasized, "According to the National Assembly Act, there should be a question session to the government within the June extraordinary session," and asked, "Can we have a question session to the government without forming all the standing committees? And won't the People Power Party refuse?"

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