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With a National Assembly plenary session scheduled for today, the Democratic Party plans to push through the three judicial reform bills, which have raised concerns about unconstitutionality. Meanwhile, the People Power Party has announced unlimited debates in response, indicating a possible severe confrontation between the ruling and opposition parties.
Shin Kyung-hee reports.
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The National Assembly plenary session, convened at the request of the Democratic Party, is expected to continue until the provisional session ends on the 3rd of next month.
The Democratic Party aims to pass the three judicial reform bills, including the distortion of judicial power, the constitutional complaint system, and increasing the number of Supreme Court justices, as well as the third commercial law amendment mandating the cancellation of treasury stocks.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Cho Hee-dae, pointed out that the three judicial reform bills pose “serious problems that could cause immense harm to the public,” and the opposition party opposed the commercial law amendment, citing the need for exceptions, but their objections were not accepted.
Han Byung-do / Democratic Party Floor Leader (Yesterday)
“We urge the People Power Party to immediately stop their nonsensical hostage-taking of livelihood issues and cooperate with convening the plenary session.”
The Democratic Party also intended to include three regional administrative integration special laws in the plenary session, but the Judiciary Committee failed to handle these yesterday. Therefore, they plan to reopen the Judiciary Committee’s full session at 10 a.m. today to reconsider them.
The People Power Party plans to engage in unlimited debates on all the bills proposed in today’s plenary session.
Song Eon-seok / People Power Party Floor Leader (Yesterday)
“We would like to make it clear once again that the responsibility for all these disputes and confusion lies with the ruling Democratic Party and the Lee Jae-myung administration.”
Despite the opposition’s unlimited debates, the Democratic Party plans to continue the plenary session until the 3rd of next month to process the bills, suggesting that the confrontation between the ruling and opposition parties may persist for nearly eight days.
This is Shin Kyung-hee from TV Chosun.